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RSS Sophos maliciousSecurity Threat Report: July 2009 Update - A Look at the Challenges Ahead
White Paper Today, most companies have guarded their email gateways and broadened their defenses against email-borne malware and malicious spam. Consequently, cybercriminals are developing techniques to infect machines... [12 Nov 2009]
Hackers target fake ads to steal IDs
News Graham Cluley, a Sophos security researcher, said: "I think there is a problem with ad networks, in general. The malware can include Trojans, back doors, and keystroke loggers and can be used by the scammers to... [16 Sep 2009]
Developers: Are you spreading malware when you code?
News Sophos has more details on its SophosLabs blog. This malware just spreads; it doesn't delete files or do anything malicious," he said. Researchers said on Tuesday they are seeing something unusual in the... [19 Aug 2009]
Critical ActiveX Office hole under attack, warns Microsoft
News Antivirus vendor Sophos, meanwhile, said in a blog posting on its site that it had received reports of several websites, mostly in China, serving the exploit as part of a web exploit kit that downloads and runs a Windows... [14 Jul 2009]
Porn site goes on Mac attack
News Sophos explained in a blog post on Thursday that visitors to the malicious porn site are told they have to download an ActiveX component to view the videos. Sophos on Wednesday... [12 Jun 2009]
Teen Twitter worm writer lands job in IT
News The latest worm exploits a cross-site scripting vulnerability and posts messages from infected accounts that reference celebrities and references to Mooney getting hired by ExqSoft, according to a blog post by Graham Cluley, a senior... [20 Apr 2009]
Fake bomb-scare scam explodes on email accounts
News But the web page and the news are fake, according to email security provider Marshal and antivirus firm Sophos. Security experts warned on Monday of a new insidious email scam that features false information about a bomb... [17 Mar 2009]
Malware-infected site detected every five seconds
News According to the Sophos security threat report Blogspot.com, the blog publishing system owned by Google, was found to be hosting two per cent of the world's web-based malware in June 2008 - with hackers hosting... [23 Jul 2008]
Macs no longer safe from cyberattacks
News While Mac penetration remain relatively low in the enterprise, the increasing popularity of OS X in the consumer market has resulted in criminal gangs starting to pay attention to the Apple collective, according to security firm,... [23 Jan 2008]
Webcast: Why Today's SMBs Need Web Security
White Paper Listen as Paul Stamp, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, and Deb Cobb, Senior Product Marketing Manager with Sophos, discuss what types of Web threats you need to consider when developing your business protection... [13 Dec 2007]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment Carole Theriault, senior consultant at security company Sophos, says she expects Storm will be the biggest malware of 2007. Malware - the generic term for malicious computer software such as viruses,... [19 Nov 2007]
Storm botnet 'services' for hire?
News Antivirus vendor Sophos agreed Stewart's analysis of the use of encryption to segment the Storm network for the purposes of resale is "probably correct". Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at... [17 Oct 2007]
China hosting half of world's malicious sites
News According to a report released by antivirus company Sophos, China - including Hong Kong - hosted 44.8 per cent of the world's infected sites in August 2007. Sophos said it detected an average of 5,000... [04 Sep 2007]
More phishing attacks than infected emails
News Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said: "More email at the moment does appear to be phishy rather than containing malicious attachments. Sophos is seeing... [31 Jan 2007]
Virus alert as Storm Worm rages on
News Antivirus vendor Sophos called Storm Worm the "first big attack of 2007", with code being spammed out from hundreds of countries. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, said the company... [23 Jan 2007]
