messagelabs trojan
Photos: Viruses and Trojans come to life
Photo Security software firm MessageLabs, has turned a number of cyber threats into works of art using the malicious computer code which forms them. Alex Dragulescu created the images for six cyber security threats using code... [06 Mar 2008]
Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment Although instant messaging (IM) has been relatively free of spam, this could change in 2008 if MessageLabs is to be believed. Mark Sunner, chief security office at MessageLabs, says: "You wouldn't be... [10 Dec 2007]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment Storm's success has created a sophisticated botnet for its controllers, which according to Mark Sunner, chief security officer at email security firm MessageLabs, numbers at the very least one million infected machines. [19 Nov 2007]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News A MessageLabs spokesman said: "All [the emails] were going after C-level management. F-Secure security expert Patrik Runald recently postulated that the perfect attack would be a zero-day attack using a rootkit-cloaked... [26 Sep 2007]
Data theft scam targets CEOs
News Once launched the executable code, embedded in a Word document, would install a Trojan and could relay sensitive information from Windows' folders on the recipient's PC, said Mark Sunner, chief security analyst at... [02 Jul 2007]
More phishing attacks than infected emails
News In January 2007, one in 93.3 (1.07 per cent) emails comprised some form of phishing attack, according to security mail services vendor MessageLabs. This includes the recent Storm Worm and Warezov attacks, according to... [31 Jan 2007]
Virus alert as Storm Worm rages on
News Mail services vendor MessageLabs said this current malicious campaign is "very aggressive" and said the gang responsible is probably a new entrant to the scene, hoping to make its mark. Many home PC users may have been... [23 Jan 2007]
Security 2007: Data theft still the one to watch
News The growth of 'Trojan supermarkets' is also predicted by MessageLabs - in the form of online stores offering everything the modern cyber criminal should ever require at just a few hundred dollars.... [04 Jan 2007]
Financial firms suffer most Trojan attacks
News Almost 40 per cent of Trojan attacks and 30 per cent of hacker scans were focused on banks and financial firms, according to a report from security companies Counterpane and MessageLabs. Financial... [14 Mar 2006]
Cyber bank robbers threaten ecommerce
News But in response to the increased adoption of stronger authentication, cyber criminals are changing their tactics, according to Alex Shipp, a senior antivirus technologist at MessageLabs. Password-stealing... [20 Feb 2006]
Kaspersky warns of major Trojan hike
News According to MessageLabs, botnets now account for around 80 per cent of the world's spam. The number of compromised computers at large on the internet has increased considerably over the past year with... [10 Feb 2006]
Sick virus writer exploits London bomb blast
News According to UK email security firm MessageLabs the email appears as a mocked-up html newsletter from CNN with the subject line 'TERROR HITS LONDON'. When executed the attachment copies itself to /Windir/winlog.exe and... [09 Jul 2005]
Trojan attack hits worldwide networks
News Email security company MessageLabs said it has blocked 54,000 copies of new Downloader Trojans since 02:00(BST) today. Alex Shipp, senior antivirus technologist for MessageLabs, said: "They are pretty... [07 Jul 2005]
Leader: Share your malware knowledge
Leader At least not until today, when email security company MessageLabs reluctantly admitted to silicon.com that China is indeed the country the malicious programs try to communicate with. Case in point: antivirus companies... [30 Jun 2005]
Leader: Share your malware knowledge
Leader At least not until today, when email security company MessageLabs reluctantly admitted to silicon.com that China is indeed the country the malicious programs try to communicate with. Case in point: antivirus companies... [29 Jun 2005]
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