Internet worm disguises itself as e-Christmas card
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HELSINKI - Internet security experts are warning about a mass-mailing worm with the subject line &quot;Merry Christmas&quot; or &quot;Happy Holidays.
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Virus writers have grafted a network sniffer into the latest variant of the SDBot worm series. So far there are no reports of SDBot-UH in the wild but the inclusion of selective network sniffing along with
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A new variant of the MyDoom Internet worm contains some puzzling add-ins: a photo that bears a likeness of Sven Jaschan, whom police in Berlin last week charged with computer sabotage after he admitted to authoring the Sasser worm, and a high-level
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A malicious Trojan disguised as a Microsoft update is being served up from a MySpace page for which the name and password appear to have been phished. The problem highlights the trouble to which criminal abuse of MySpace can lead.
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Anti-virus companies are warning of a new variant of the Sdbot mass-mailing worm that installs a network sniffer in order to grab unencrypted passwords, apparently the first worm to do so.
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Next time an e-card with a jolly message drops into your computer&#39;s inbox, think before you click it open - it could be a virus which will implant itself in your machine and spread before you even realise it.
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Code that exploits a "critical" Windows flaw has been posted on the Net, opening the door for a worm to be created.
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Making use of the current trend to send festive greetings via email, a new virus is making the rounds. A variant of the ZAFI worm, the WORM_Zafi.
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Blog: E-mail supposedly from the I.R.S. hides a malicious attached file.
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Dubbed MyDoom.AH by security firms, this latest variant in the MyDoom family of worms is exploiting the recently publicised vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer&#39;s (IE) IFRAME buffer overflow.
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Anti-virus experts at Sophos have advised that a new Internet worm is defacing web bulletin boards across the globe. The Santy worm exploits a vulnerability in a piece of software often used to provide discussion
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Symantec said when someon clicks on an infected link in a message, the worm tries to download code from remote sites, to redirect users to certain Web sites and to send a version of itself to everyone in an IM user&#39;s contact list as well.
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(National-NBC) Dec. 17, 2004 - The Christmas Grinch on the Internet this season is a new computer virus called &quot;Zafi.&quot;. Zafi pretends to be an e-mail with holiday greetings, according to the antivirus firm Symantec.
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Unknown DDoS tool, predecessors A deluge of Trojan-laced spam that slyly tricked recipients by promising information about winter storms ravaging Northern Europe last month was even more crafty than we thought.â¦
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Security researchers have uncovered a spoofing flaw in Internet Explorer that could turn out to be the perfect holiday gift for scammers.
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The Storm botnet delivers unwanted Christmas presents.
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Also: Windows worm travels with Tetris [News.com Extra]