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A new variant of the Bagle virus, Bagle.cd or Bagle.da, depending upon with whom you are speaking, has hit the Internet, hiding itself in attachment files called “price_new.zip”, “price2.zip” or “09_price.zip”. This Trojan-launched virus is particularly nasty, in that it both turns off nearly every security program out there, and it also blocks […]
Mepe.A is a new instant messaging worm with a twist: it is targeting primarily the Latino community. Mepe.A sends an instant message which says “te mandaron un recado conmigo, ya te has de imaginar quien y si no sabes me dijo que no te dijera quien, me dijo que te lo escribio […]
The online game community is being targeted by a keylogger worm called “PrsKey.a”, which is stealing their usernames and passwords for their online games. Now why on earth would someone want to access someone else’s online game account?
The newest worm in the big apple known as the Internet is worm_opaniki.y, also known as Oscabot-L. What makes Opaniki.y unique is that it impersonates iTunes, by sending itself around disguised as “iTunes.exe”.
Sven Jaschan, the German teenager who created the Sasser worm, has now been convicted of creating Sasser, and has received a suspended sentence for his deeds, along with an order to perform community service.
The newest version of the W32 Kedebe-F worm is playing on the natural curiousity and rubber-necking of the email-reading public, or as it’s known in the trade, “social engineering”.
A new email worm being carried in email purporting to contain pictures of a captured Osama Bin Laden has failed to elicit the likely intended response - releasing the worm and allowing it to spread.
MSN Messenger has been added to the list of instant messenger programs which require heightened vigilence. Two security companies have discovered that there are two worms, one old and revised, and one new, which are targetting MSN Messenger users. As if we don’t have enough to worry about with phishers targetting Yahoo Messenger, […]
Tempting though it may be, if you get an e-mail in your inbox that promises a photo of naked people spelling out “Happy New Year” with their bodies, don’t open it.
Not, mind you, that the picture isn’t there - it is (although one is given to wonder given the season just where they were when […]