Worst week for viruses in a year?
The largest proliferation of email virus attacks in more than a year is likely to have occurred last Thursday, according to security company Postini.
Viruses & Malware
Virus Targets Skype Users Via Instant Messages
Anti-virus firm Sophos warns users to be wary of a "Mal/Pykse-A" worm that spreads through Skype instant messages. The worm poses as link of a model in wearing stiletto heels before infecting the PC with a virus and installing the worm.
Some sites contain an invisible frame that takes content from online advertising companies while the others seem to just have mirrors of a legitimate page but really contain malicious content.
Storm Outbreak: Building A Bigger, Better Botnet
The new Storm worm outbreak that buffeted the Internet with malware-laden spam on Thursday slowed down early Friday morning.
IPods targeted by obscure Linux virus
As threats go this one is very small but the target happens to be one of the biggest in the digital world -- someone has finally got round to writing an iPod virus.
This one is as obscure as the iPod is famous. Called 'Podloso' by its discoverers, Kaspersky Lab, the virus is rated as a proof-of-concept virus, which means that it has been created with the intention of testing out programming techniques for attacking the music player to see how they fare under real-world conditions. So far, the concept has been proven in only one respect, that of gaining attention.
How a virus blackened my reputation
We all like to think of ourselves as popular, so it comes of something of a shock to find yourself on a blacklist. But that?s exactly what happened to me last week or, rather, to my public IP address which, if you rely on email, is an equally damaging slight. Moreover, it?s an illustration of the fact that no matter how well protected you think you are, network security is easily breached.
CBA prepares for malware attacks
Malware-led attacks will increase as cybercriminals respond to tougher security measures, including two factor authentication, according to the Commonwealth Bank's head of e-commerce.
CBA e-commerce general manager Marcus Judge said he expected more miscreants to try and convince unsuspecting users to download malware, which allows unauthorised access to a computer, as a result of widespread adoption of two factor authentication in the banking community. Malware usually performs some sort of unauthorised activity such as keystroke logging or allows remote access to a computer.
Hackers Using Middle East Fears To Push Trojan Attack
Hackers are spamming out e-mails with fraudulent news about a war breaking out in the Middle East involving the United States, Iran, and Israel in an attempt to trick people into downloading Trojans.
Daniel Wesemann, a handler at the Internet Storm Center, reported in the site's online daily diary Sunday that the spam is coming with .exe files attached. The hackers are using social engineering to lure people into opening the e-mails with the malicious attachments by using subject lines about war breaking out or the United States bombing Iran.
Worm poses as Internet Explorer 7 beta download
A convincing email supposedly from Microsoft, inviting users to download a beta version Internet Explorer 7.0, actually links to a worm, warns security research Sophos. The email claims to come from admin@microsoft.comThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it and has the subject line "Internet Explorer 7 Downloads". Rather than containing an infected attachment, the email contains an image linking to a file called ie7.0.exe which is infected by the W32/Grum-A worm.
Hackers bank on Trojans to steal financial data
Trojans designed to steal financial information constitute one of the fastest growing threats to internet users, security experts warned today.
PandaLabs highlighted the serious danger posed by a recently detected example, the StealAll.A Trojan, which injects a DLL in the internet browser to steal data that users enter in online forms.
According to the security company, 53.6 percent of the new malware samples that appeared in 2006 were Trojans. And 20 percent of all Trojans detected in 2006 were banker Trojans, which were the most frequently detected category of Trojan.
Russian (Gozi) Trojan powering massive ID-theft ring
Researchers at SecureWorks have stumbled upon what appears to be a massive identity theft ring us 56b ing state-of-the-art Trojan code to steal confidential data from thousands of infected machines in the U.S.
