Cyber-criminals have launched a "massive spoof email attack" that accuses victims of being associated with a child porn site in a bid to trick them into downloading malware.
The messages, which use the subject line 'CP investigation was started', claim that the recipient's email address has been found in a child porn database discovered by the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP).
The email actually contains the Agent-CPK Trojan horse.
A consumer magazine has been condemned for possibly adding to the virus problem by creating a series of "test" viruses just to review anti-virus scanners. In an act that has long been considered technical taboo, US-based consumer affairs organisation, ConsumerReports.org, decided to generate 5,500 "test" viruses to run, under lab conditions, against 12 leading anti-virus software products.
The US government, corporate and academic researchers are working on a network that would be able to configure itself, intelligently cache and route data, and allow for fast and reliable sharing of data, all while maintaining military-grade security.
The 'big one' is coming. A major worm attack is just days away. It's no drill, say the security experts.
As the spotlight on a dangerous Windows vulnerability grows brighter by the hour, security analysts Thursday said that it's not hype driving the alarms, but genuine fear that a major worm attack is just days away.
"This is no drill," said Mike Murray, director of research at vulnerability management vendor nCircle. "And no, this isn't an overreaction. We've always said that some day there would be another big, serious vulnerability.
"Well, this is the one."
Hackers have developed worms capable of attacking all major instant messenger systems, it has been revealed.
According to anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab worms are being developed that can spread via multiple IM networks, rather than just attacked one system.
Kaspersky said IM worms such as IRCBot.lo, discovered in January, will become the greatest IM threat, as they can spread to a large number of networks and can use variable messages and download links.
F-Secure has denied overplaying the threat posed by mobile malware after the Finnish antivirus vendor issued information about a new mobile worm.
The warning, released last week, claimed that the worm -- Commwarrior Q -- affects smartphones running Symbian Series 60 software.
But despite the fact F-Secure maintains that the worm is not spreading widely or quickly, the warning has re-opened a debate about whether F-Secure is overplaying the threat of mobile phone viruses to sell its mobile antivirus product.
Mobile phone malware writers are up to no good again. A security vendor has detected a new variant of an aggressive Russian mobile worm that uses some alarming new tricks.
Like its earlier relatives, Commwarrior.Q will jump onto another phone using a short-range Bluetooth wireless connection, said anti-virus company F-Secure. It also spreads via MMS or by an infected memory card inserted into a device.
More than 10,000 Australian computers have been infected by a trojan virus - invisible to most anti-virus software - that is transmitting their owners' private details to identity thieves.
The Australian Tax Office confirmed yesterday that 178 taxpayers had unwittingly revealed their tax file numbers while lodging tax returns online.
These people had been notified and were being offered new tax file numbers, a spokesman said.
An Austrian group of virus writers has published new proof of concept malware code that targets the forthcoming Windows Powershell technology.
The MSH/Cibyz worm doesn?t exploit any vulnerability in the scripting tool. Instead it's similar to batch-type viruses written in Javascript or Visual Basic (VB) that instruct a system to install malware after a users executes the script.
The number of infected emails has plummeted by more than 50 per cent compared to the first half of 2006, according to the latest report from security software firm, Sophos.
Sophos said that the proportion of email infected by malware and viruses now stands at a new low of just 1-in-222, a percentage rating of just 0.45 per cent. This is a massive drop compared to the first six months of this year where the infected email rate stood at 1-in-9, or 1.1 per cent. However, users are being warned that this does not mean things are getting better.
