Sophos worm
RSS Sophos wormHackers 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]
Porn site goes on Mac attack
News Sophos on Wednesday discovered a new version of the Mac OS X Tored worm, according to a Sophos blog post. Sophos explained in a blog post on Thursday that visitors to... [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... [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. Earlier this year, the Waledac worm tricked people with fake Valentine's emails. Security... [17 Mar 2009]
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. The best example of this new-breed botnet Trojan is the now-notorious Storm Worm. [19 Nov 2007]
Spammers switching on to YouTube?
News Earlier this month, Sophos reported that spammers were exploiting YouTube's "invite your friends" function to send email spam containing a variant of the Storm Worm. The spam run of 15 million emails... [30 Oct 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]
Is this the malware mother of all botnets?
News Paul Ducklin, head of technology at Sophos said a supercomputer differs drastically due to how CPU nodes are interconnected and the speed at which data can be pushed from one node to another. Criminals behind the Storm... [12 Sep 2007]
More phishing attacks than infected emails
News Security vendor Sophos confirmed it also saw more phishing than malware activity in January. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said: "More email at the moment does appear to be... [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,... [23 Jan 2007]
Mac virus is damp squib, says Symantec
News Paul Ducklin, head of technology for Sophos Asia Pacific, said the virus was "not important or significant" but he was concerned the author had distributed the source code, which could "not only explain how you might... [06 Nov 2006]
Virus writer suspects bagged by police
News Graham Cluley, senior security consultant for Sophos, said the group could also have been responsible for writing a worm the security company calls "Tibick", written in 2004. Antivirus vendors McAfee and... [28 Jun 2006]
Yahoo! 'virus writer' claims he just wants a job
News Carole Theriault, senior security consultant at Sophos, told silicon.com that the technical knowledge displayed in the email certainly suggests the man was very familiar with the virus: "It is possible that he authored... [16 Jun 2006]
10 things you should do to a new PC before connecting it to the Internet
White Paper According to Sophos research, there is a 50 percent chance of being infected by an Internet worm in just 12 minutes of being online using an unprotected, unpatched Windows PC. A Microsoft Windows PC that... [16 May 2006]
Trojan nasties raid passwords
News The company said, as of last Monday, only five security applications - eTrust-Vet, NOD32 version 2, Sophos, UNA and VBA32 - were able to detect the threat. The malicious software spreads via the Alcra... [27 Mar 2006]
