Windows patch, iPod exploited in e-mail scams
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Fake patches, rogue invoices make the rounds as spammers continue trying to fool people into installing Trojans on their PCs.
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A toolkit designed to exploit a recently-disclosed Microsoft JPEG vulnerability has been released onto the net. The toolkit (screen shot from AV firm F-Secure here) makes it trivially easy for maliciously-minded
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Virus hijacks PCs and uses them to send short message spam to mobile phones.
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Blog: A Trojan packed e-mail is targeting businesses under the guise of a Better Business Bureau complaint.
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Although Microsoft had planned to release a patch today for a OneCare flaw that eats Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail files, user complaints prompted it to actually put out the fix on Sunday.
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Rare, out-of-cycle Windows patch fixes one flaw, but attacks through other known, yet-to-be-plugged holes continue.
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The schemes have included unsolicited e-mail messages seeking money and a phony Web site capable of depositing a virus on computers.
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Clicking the fraudulent update could install malicious code on your desktop.
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A bug in Microsoft's registration process for Windows Live ID may have allowed scammers to register false e-mail addresses and use them to deceive other users.
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MALICIOUS programs that can delete address books, junk messages that flood a mobile phone&#39;s inbox and stealthy code that uses Bluetooth wireless technology to sneak onto handsets.
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Spammers's Holy Grail Spammers are using a sophisticated piece of software that can create thousands of Windows Live email addresses by cracking the protections designed to prevent the large-scale creation of fraudulent accounts.â¦
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A researcher has posted exploit code that attackers can use to hijack Windows machines via Yahoo Inc.'s Messenger instant messaging software.
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Exploit code for two of Tuesday's patches have been posted to mailing lists by researchers.
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Unpatched Windows systems face more security dangers after it has been discovered that new exploits are possible via malicious Web pages and e-mail messages.
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The Better Business Bureau network was the target of a "spoofing" scam yesterday in which thousands of businesses in the United States and Canada received e-mails encouraging them to download what is thought to be a computer virus.
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Apple issues patch for iTunes to prevent attacks. Also: Identity thief gets jail time.
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E-mail message falsely claims that tool detects, cleans up adult-related material on your PC.