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RSS kaspersky labsVirus alert: Sober trio in the wild
News Antivirus company Kaspersky Labs said on its website that large numbers of infected emails have been intercepted. Kaspersky Labs identified the variants as Sober.u, Sober.v, and Sober.w. Infected messages may have a random subject line or none at... [16 Nov 2005]
Smart phone viruses: Nokia and Symantec hook up
News Earlier this year, software maker Kaspersky Labs released its own mobile antivirus software. Nokia has entered a pact with Symantec to help secure its mobile phones from viruses that target certain kinds of handsets. [06 Oct 2005]
Flaw mars Kaspersky antivirus software
News A "critical" flaw in Kaspersky Labs' antivirus software could let an attacker commandeer systems that use the products, a security researcher warned on Monday. The problem lies in Kaspersky's antivirus library, security researcher Alex Wheeler... [04 Oct 2005]
Malware ID scheme set to sort naming muddle
News Kaspersky Labs and Trend Micro will do the same, company representatives said. ICSA Labs, a research and testing outfit, also participates. The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team is preparing to take the wraps off the Common Malware Enumeration... [23 Sep 2005]
IM threats - going one of two ways
News However, as reported on silicon.com earlier, Alexander Gostev, senior virus analyst at Kaspersky Labs, has expressed his belief that IM threats will be quickly brought under control as firms act to control the use of IM within the corporate network. [19 Apr 2005]
'Expect an IM worm rampage'
News Alexander Gostev, senior virus analyst at Kaspersky Labs, said most of these worms were written in Visual Basic and contain similar source code - a sure sign that script kiddies were most likely responsible. [19 Apr 2005]
Lexus slams brakes on in-car virus theory
News The rebuttal addressed concerns related to a report by security software maker Kaspersky Labs in January that it was investigating the possibility that Lexus cars could be infected by viruses. Kaspersky says that no cars actually were infected and... [18 Feb 2005]
Virus drives into car computers
News Kaspersky Labs was contacted last weekend by a user asking how to disinfect the onboard computers of Lexus cars - the LX470, LS430 and Landcruiser 100. Eugene Kaspersky, head of antivirus research at Kaspersky Labs, said: "We know that car... [26 Jan 2005]
Firefox flaw found
News David Emm, a senior technology consultant at antivirus company Kaspersky Labs, said it is unlikely that phishers will take advantage of this exploit in Firefox because Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the browser market. [06 Jan 2005]
Germans net six phishermen on fraud charges
News Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Labs recently said that 90 per cent of malware is created and sent by criminals looking to steal money. German police have arrested five men in Bonn on suspicion of stealing €30,000 through phishing fraud and... [20 Dec 2004]
Mobsters grip on web tightens
News According to Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Labs, these criminals are behind 90 per cent of malicious code, leaving teenagers and script kiddies responsible for only a small fraction of total malware. [10 Dec 2004]
'Netsky' variant belongs to Baba family
News Kaspersky has also found the same thing. The guys in the labs have looked more closely at this and said that this isn't Netsky," Cluley said. Antivirus companies have mislabelled a worm they thought belonged to the Netsky virus family, a security... [25 Oct 2004]
Cheap Windows comes to Russia
News Notable tech successes from Russia include antivirus specialist Kaspersky Labs and Sea Launch, a Russian-Ukrainian-Norwegian-US joint venture that launches rockets from a platform on the equator for commercial satellite deployment. [28 Sep 2004]
'Jihad' online is just hype
News Antivirus-software maker Kaspersky Labs said the reports focused on what was otherwise "brief comments made yesterday at a press conference which was dedicated to cybercrime and the problems of spam. The antivirus researcher's rebuttal to the... [26 Aug 2004]
Wrong handle on worm?
News David Emm, senior technical consultant at Kaspersky Labs, explained that researchers follow certain guidelines when naming malware, but he said their first priority is to produce a detection signature, not conduct a detailed analysis. [06 Aug 2004]
