Samsung Telecom plays unwilling host to Trojan
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Stowaway spyware alert The Samsung Telecom's site is inadvertently hosting malware, according to web security firm Websense.â¦
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SMiShing A mass mailing worm that attempts to trick users into downloading malware in response to bogus text messages is spreading in Spain.â¦
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Security firm Websense warned this week that attackers had apparently broke into the Web site of telecommunications company Samsung, infecting certain portions of the site with a Trojan horse.
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Users of Nokia's 7610 smart phone and possibly other phones running Symbian's Series 60 software should be aware of a new Trojan program on the Internet.
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Bluetooth phone users beware, a new mobile virus is ready to pounce on your phone. The antivirus company F-secure has identified two new variants of the Cabir worm.
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In this age of worms, zombies, and botnets, mobile computers themselves are a kind of Trojan horse. Do you know where that computerâs been? No, you really donât.
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Skype warns users password-stealing Trojan horse is making the rounds, disguised as a Skype security plug-in
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Trojan horses are piggybacking on an antipiracy feature in Media Player, a security firm claims. But Microsoft denies it's a flaw.
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A new trojan on the internet attacks the Nokia 7610 smartphone and possibly other phones running Symbian Series 60 software. &quot;We have located several freeware and shareware sites offering a program, called
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A newly intercepted malicious Trojan has begun infecting mobile phones which run the Symbian operating system. Dubbed &#39;Skulls&#39; the Trojan has been detected on Symbian shareware download sites where it bills itself as &#39;Extended Theme Manager&#39; by &#39;Tee-222&#39;.
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KUALA LUMPUR: British security software specialist Sophos Plc said it has identified a new trojan which attempts to send spam messages to mobile phone users.
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Anti-virus vendors have spotted a new strain of the &quot;Skulls&quot; Trojan sneaking into Symbian-based cell phones, and this one drops the Cabir worm on the devices.
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The Delf-HA Trojan horse infects PCs and then contacts a Russian Web site to download instructions for running a spam campaign. The Trojan sends spam SMS by using the &quot;Send a text message&quot; facility
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A Trojan horse computer program that uses infected computers to churn out mobile phone spam messages is causing concern among antivirus firms.
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A TROJAN HORSE with a name that takes over a PC so that it sends SMS spam to mobile phones has been spotted in Russia. The Delf-HA Trojan contacts a Web site for details on which spam campaign to run and then
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South Korea's high-tech giant Samsung Electronic has fought back against an Internet video clip which alleges that its new slimline mobile phone is easy to break.
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Over the past month, a new type of malicious software has emerged, using a decades-old technique to hide itself from antivirus software.The malware, called Trojan.Mebroot by Symantec, installs itself on the first part of the computer&#39;s hard drive to be read on startup, then makes changes to the Windows kernel, making it hard for security software to detect it.Criminals have been installing Trojan.Mebroot, known as a master boot record rootkit, since mid-December, and were able to infect nearly 5,000 users in two separate attacks, staged on Dec. 12 and Dec. 19, according to Verisign&#39;s iDefense Intelligence Team. In order to install the software on a victim&#39;s computer, attackers first lure them to a compromised Web site, which then launches a variety of attacks against the victim&#39;s computer in hopes of finding a way to run the rootkit code on the PC.Once installed, the malware gives attackers control over the victim&#39;s machine.The group behind this latest rootkit is the same one responsible for the Torpig Trojan, and it is believed to have already installed more than 250,000 Trojan programs, iDefense said in a report on the rootkit published Monday.The interesting thing about Trojan.Mebroot is that it installs itself on the master boot record (MBR). This is the first sector of the computer&#39;s hard drive and it is the place the computer goes to first whenever it wants to boot up the operating system. &quot;Basically, if you can control the MBR, you can control the operating system and therefore the computer it resides on,&quot; wrote Symantec researcher Elia Florio in a blog posting on Trojan.Mebroot.The criminals are using several different versions of this attack code, some of which are not currently being detected by some antivirus products, iDefense said.&quot;At the moment the AV detection is hit and miss across the board, however in the last day a number of vendors have added detection for it already,&quot; said Andrew Storms, director of security operations with nCircle Network Security. &quot;As for penetration, so far many people are showing it as having a low overall distribution. The concern is that the group which may be preparing to distribute the rootkit is well-prepared.&quot;Malicious software that infected the master boot record was common during the MS-DOS era, but it has not been used much in attacks in recent years.In 2005, however, researchers at eEye Digital Security gave a talk at the Black Hat security conference, showing how a rootkit could hide itself on the MBR. This Trojan.Mebroot software is derived from that code, iDefense said.Getting this kind of malicious software to work reliably is a technical challenge, and there have generally been easier ways for the bad guys to take over PCs in recent years, said Marc Maiffret, an independent security researcher who was chief technology officer at eEye when the code was first developed.Attackers were given a hand last year, however, when researchers at NV Labs published a proof of concept MBR rootkit.Maiffret said that while we may soon see more of these MBR rootkits, &quot;it won&#39;t take long for all the antivirus companies to react.&quot;&quot;It&#39;s not some new attack vector that&#39;s going to be hard to prevent,&quot; he said. &quot;It&#39;s just something that people haven&#39;t really paid attention to.&quot;