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RSS Sophos infectSecurity Threat Report: July 2009 Update - A Look at the Challenges Ahead
White Paper Consequently, cybercriminals are developing techniques to infect machines behind-the-scenes by embedding malicious code on innocent websites and luring victims to them.has proven attacks are continuing to broaden. [12 Nov 2009]
Developers: Are you spreading malware when you code?
News The virus, dubbed Win32.Induc, was written to infect applications built with Delphi, according to Nick Bilogorskiy, manager of antivirus researcher at SonicWall. Sophos has more details on its SophosLabs... [19 Aug 2009]
Protecting Against Tomorrow's Threats Today - Proactive Security From SophosLabs
White Paper Constantly looking for new vulnerabilities to exploit, today's cybercriminals are using fast-changing, low-profile threats to surreptitiously infect and hijack computers across the business network. Spammed email,... [30 Jun 2009]
Protecting against tomorrow's threats today -- proactive security from SophosLabs
White Paper Constantly looking for new vulnerabilities to exploit, today's cybercriminals are using fast- changing, low-profile threats to surreptitiously infect and hijack computers across the business network. Spammed email,... [18 Mar 2009]
Storm botnet 'services' for hire?
News Oddly enough, Storm isn't doing much, so far, except gathering strength," he wrote, adding that: "Aside from continuing to infect other Windows machines and attacking particular sites that are attacking it Storm has only... [17 Oct 2007]
China hosting half of world's malicious sites
News Theriault said: "Most malware writers.are using spam and the web to infect users. According to a report released by antivirus company Sophos, China - including Hong Kong - hosted 44.8 per cent of the... [04 Sep 2007]
More phishing attacks than infected emails
News That means that the email itself may not contain a malware attachment but instead a web link to a site or download that would then infect you with a Trojan horse. Security vendor Sophos confirmed it also... [31 Jan 2007]
Old malware can affect Vista, admits Microsoft
News Based on our initial investigation, Microsoft can confirm that these variants do not take advantage of a security vulnerability, rather they rely on social engineering to infect a user's system. Social engineering relies... [05 Dec 2006]
Spammers dust off their botnet passports
News Criminals who remotely infect PCs for the purpose of using them to relay spam messages are targeting new countries and regions in order to increase the number of machines they can enlist. And although traditional leader... [26 Jul 2006]
Virus writer suspects bagged by police
News A 63-year-old man in Suffolk, a 28-year-old man in Scotland, and a 19-year-old man in Finland were arrested in connection with "an international conspiracy to infect computers using viruses attached to unsolicited... [28 Jun 2006]
Excel virus takes aim at fantasy football fans
News The XF97/Yagnuul.A virus can infect users' dot-xls spreadsheets once the attachment is opened. The virus deploys an infected fantasy league file on the computer's hard drive and may also modify a user's data, according... [09 May 2006]
Trojan nasties raid passwords
News The potential victim must visit a malicious website to infect their system, and attackers may use emails to direct them there. The company said, as of last Monday, only five security applications - eTrust-Vet, NOD32... [27 Mar 2006]
Spyware arrest follows internet bank thefts
News It is alleged the two men conspired to infect the company by attaching the spyware to an email sent to the company, purporting to be from a dissatisfied customer. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for... [26 Jan 2006]
Spammers exploit Iran nuclear crisis
News Cluley added: "Simply reading the spam email doesn't infect you. The emails, which link to Trojan spreading websites, are purporting to contain news stories of the nuclear stand-off between the EU and Iran, according to... [10 Aug 2005]
Trojan targets Symbian smart phones
News F-Secure has reported that it masquerades as an unauthorised copy of Doom 2, and will infect users who download it from a website. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said last week... [05 Jul 2005]
