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News 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. The two possible avenues of attack are spam with links to the as...
[07 May 2008]
Comment Now security experts admit traditional approaches can't keep pace with the growth in malware. Today, I look at my slide deck from Milan and see that we have entire internet relay chat networks controlled by the criminal underground economy, that...
[29 Apr 2008]
News 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 Speaking to silicon.com at Infosec 2008 in London...
[24 Apr 2008]
News 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 fewer than 2007...
[24 Apr 2008]
News 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 warned of all manner of...
[17 Apr 2008]
News 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 reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963...
[09 Apr 2008]
News 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 Click on the links below to find out more.
[04 Mar 2008]
News 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 more than three...
[20 Feb 2008]
News 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.
[07 Feb 2008]
News 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 Security from A to Z
[07 Feb 2008]
News 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 Security from A to Z
[05 Feb 2008]
News 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.
[31 Jan 2008]
News 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) rootkit had been a...
[10 Jan 2008]
News 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.
[10 Dec 2007]
News 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 hundreds of thousands...
[04 Dec 2007]
News 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 Report 2007.
[30 Nov 2007]
News 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.
[08 Nov 2007]
News The malware writers are also getting lazy, according to F-Secure, and are no longer attempting to catch out companies by using increasingly complex viruses. Sean Sullivan, technical expert at F-Secure, said virus writers can no longer beat security...
[28 Sep 2007]
News C-level employees of publicly listed companies are being targeted by cyber criminals using malware-infected RTF (Rich Text File) documents disguised as recruitment letters. Security vendor MesssageLabs reported that 1,100 emails containing malware...
[26 Sep 2007]
News 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 malware toolkits...
[17 Sep 2007]
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