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  • Russian botnet takes on Zeus

    Two years ago a malicious program called Storm Worm began attacking servers controlled by a rival known as Srizbi. And a few years before that, the authors of the Netsky worm programmed their software to remove rival programs Bagle and MyDoom.Spy…
    10 February 2010
    Tags: Worm • Trojans • Kill • Eye • Bank • Accounts

  • Vendor rages after iPhone hacker given job

    More blatantly, a storm erupted when the German author of the equally destructive Netsky/sasser malware was hired by a security firm in the country. A security firm has expressed incredulity at the news that the Australian prank hacker who wrote a…
    26 November 2009
    Tags: Infected • Developer • Record • Targeting • Sophos • Writer

  • WINS attacks now in the wild

    The "critical" WINS vulnerability that Microsoft issued a patch for last week is now being exploited actively in the wild, according to the SANS Institute.The Internet Storm Center (ISC), which is operated by SANS, is receiving preliminary reports…
    19 August 2009
    Tags: Activity • Patch • Vulnerability • Institute • Execute • Exploited

  • Spam overload as PC hits 600,000 a day

    Waledac, which analysts have said is a successor to 2007-08's Storm bot, was recently in the news when it was installed by PCs infected with the Conficker worm. Researchers fighting spam have warned that bot-infected PCs can crank out as many as…
    23 April 2009
    Tags: Warned • Infected • Gregg Keizer • Messages • Botnet • Botnets

  • Conficker reprogrammed for new attack run

    The Waledec botnet grew in a fashion that was similar to the Storm worm, another large botnet that has now faded but was used to send spam. Researchers are warning that the Conficker worm has been reprogrammed to strengthen its defences and boost…
    09 April 2009
    Tags: Websites • Jeremy Kirk • Controllers • Findings • Boost • Botnet

  • Facebook worm's comeback tackled by Microsoft

    During several months at the end of 2007, the tool hit the then-notorious Storm Trojan horse, eradicating it from about a half-million PCs.The MRST can be downloaded manually from Microsoft's site, or retrieved via the Windows Update service.
    12 March 2009
    Tags: Infected • Downloading • Trojan • Horse • Scott • Researcher

Latest Features

  • 7 dirty secrets of the security industry

    Vendor blind spots allowed the Storm worm outbreak to happen. Storm recognised the biggest blind spots in anti-virus and exploited them, and Storm employs great social engineering," Corman says.7. Nader's book took car makers to task for worrying…
    06 May 2008
    Tags: Engineering • Safety • Anti Virus • Book • Storm • Configurations

  • The Internet floods with bogus e-cards

    The damaging payload files are new variants of the Storm Worm virus that was first detected in January, the company said.In its alert today, Helsinki, Finland-based security vendor F-Secure said the fake e-card messages from one group of online…
    17 August 2007
    Tags: Viruses • Trojan • Alert • Fake • Names • Links

  • Apple security - silence then abuse

    Kyle Haugsness of the SANS Internet Storm Center covers every aspect and stresses size of the hole: Well that pretty much covers the whole Web browsing thing. Johannes Ullrich of the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center complains that Apple does…
    06 October 2006
    Tags: Suse Linux • Claiming • Causes • Crash • Secunia • Warns

  • Worm dry run for something more serious

    Destroy the gate and then storm the unprotected castle.It didn't get as much publicity as it should have," Shannon says. The Witty worm could turn out to be a dry run for something much more serious. That means the bad guys either started writing…
    17 January 2005
    Tags: Infected • Guys • Story • Worms • Ip Address • Attacked

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