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Warning: The Storm still rages on

News A is for Antivirus Security vendor Symantec has warned that the Storm worm, the malware which contributes to the Storm botnet, is continuing to evolve and now has two further possible avenues of attack.

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

Are we losing the security war?

Comment Security experts are having to admit that traditional antivirus scanning approaches are no longer able to keep pace with the growth in malware products, increasingly purpose-designed by sophisticated criminal gangs, with product packers to defeat...

Tags: security, e-crime, cyber crime

[29 Apr 2008]

Mobiles to come under attack from 'bad guys'

News A is for Antivirus He explained: "As SDKs became more available for PCs people wrote malware, viruses, worms and applications that looked like legitimate things but in reality were stealing data. B is for Botnets

Tags: criminals, schmidt, security, sdk

[24 Apr 2008]

Security threat: One web page infected every five seconds

News A is for Antivirus The company noted that the sites of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and even security vendors, have fallen prey to malware attacks. According to Sophos, only one in 2,500 email messages contained malware - 40 per cent...

Tags: malware, email, web, security

[24 Apr 2008]

Beware the insider security threat

Beware the insider security threat

News A is for Antivirus Employees and insiders are bigger threats to corporate security than external threats such as denial of service attacks or malware. B is for Botnets Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week...

Tags: insider, security

[17 Apr 2008]

Phishers attack social networking generation

News A is for Antivirus The report also notes vulnerabilities in websites are increasingly popular malware vectors as they allow for more sophisticated and multi-stage attacks. B is for Botnets The report states "66 per cent of phishing attacks in the...

Tags: social networking, phishers

[09 Apr 2008]

Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'

News A is for Antivirus ATMs today face the internet-born threat of worms and denial of service attacks, as well as being at risk from malware that can harvest customer data or hijack machines. B is for Security from A to Z

Tags: atm, banks, malware, box

[04 Mar 2008]

Google warns: Malicious 'drive-by downloads' on the up

News A is for Antivirus Drive-by downloads are caused by URLs that attempt to exploit their visitors and cause malware to be installed and run automatically. The Google researchers investigated billions of URLs over the past year-and-a-half, and found...

Tags: google, china, malicious, malware

[20 Feb 2008]

Glasgow: Crackdown on software piracy hotspot

News A is for Antivirus The BSA warned that using unlicensed software also risks loss or corruption of vital data and IT systems, citing research by the IDC that revealed one in three counterfeit products contain spyware, malware or viruses.

Tags: bsa, glasgow, software, spyware

[07 Feb 2008]

Europe dishing out more spam than US

News A is for Antivirus Sjostedt said: "We've moved away from traditional, individual spammers, to loosely tied groups of spam senders, malware coders and people selling access to botnets. B is for Botnets

Tags: email, europe, us, spam

[07 Feb 2008]

Google launches online security tools

News A is for Antivirus The basic version of the tech - called Google Message Filtering - costs £1.50 per user per year and includes Postini's filtering system to block inbound spam and malware. B is for Botnets

Tags: web, google, saas, security

[05 Feb 2008]

Web 2.0 security risks being ignored

News A is for Antivirus Rashke warned traditional security tools - such as firewalling - did not go deep enough into rich content to determine whether it was a security risk - either incoming as malware or outgoing as data leakage.

Tags: web 2.0, security, banking, banks

[31 Jan 2008]

Rootkit to protect Trojans goes live

News A is for Antivirus A gang that specialises in the theft of banking information through Trojans is attempting to protect its work by spreading a rootkit that veils malware. B is for Botnets Until late in December 2007, the Master Boot Record (MBR...

Tags: rootkit, trojan, malware, record

[10 Jan 2008]

Bot attacks target those looking for romance

News A is for Antivirus PC Tools senior malware analyst, Sergei Shevchenko, said in a statement: "As a tool that can be used by hackers to conduct identity fraud, CyberLover demonstrates an unprecedented level of social engineering.

Tags: bot attacks, id, dating, russia

[10 Dec 2007]

Google calls for help in flagging up the bad guys

News A is for Antivirus Google is hoping its users will report "bad sites" to help the company fight criminals exploiting the company's infrastructure to distribute malware. According to the Google security blog, the search giant already knows about...

Tags: google, malware, search, sites

[04 Dec 2007]

Cyber spies plan attacks next year

News A is for Antivirus Other major trends over the coming calendar year include an increasing threat to online services - such as banking - and the emergence of a complex and sophisticated malware market, according to the annual Virtual Criminology...

Tags: spy, security, malware, hackers

[30 Nov 2007]

Phishers snare Salesforce.com data

News A is for Antivirus According to Harris: "A few days ago a new wave of phishing attempts that included attached malware - software that secretly installs viruses or keyloggers - appeared and seemed to be targeted at a broader group of customers.

Tags: phishing, breach, salesforce.com, wave

[08 Nov 2007]

Cyber criminals building more but smaller botnets

News But researchers at antivirus company F-Secure have reported seeing these large networks being broken down into smaller groups of compromised computers because the creation of large botnets is not creating as much revenue for such cyber criminals.

Tags: f-secure, malware, botnet

[28 Sep 2007]

Trojan targets companies' top brass

News A is for Antivirus It shows that signature based antivirus is not enough; you need more technology than that. C-level employees of publicly listed companies are being targeted by cyber criminals using malware-infected RTF (Rich Text File) documents...

Tags: social engineering, malware, trojan

[26 Sep 2007]

Cyber criminals turn pro

News A is for Antivirus Cybercrime is becoming an increasingly professional business with malware toolkits sold on the internet and confidential details being traded in an underground economy. Symantec points to MPack as an example of the black market...

Tags: economy, botnets, symantec, malware

[17 Sep 2007]

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