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10 most recent virus news
| Visitors to Sony Playstation website at risk of malware infections (02 July 2008) Researchers at Sophos are warning lovers of video games that pages on the US-based Sony PlayStation website have been compromised by hackers. Experts have discovered that cybercriminals... |
| Mac OS X backdoor trojan (29 June 2008) OSX/AsTHT.A backdoor Trojan is designed to affect Apple operating systems such as MacOS, Leopard or Tiger. When run, the backdoor Trojan uses an Apple Remote Desktop Agent vulnerability... |
| Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) struck in latest malware attack (27 June 2008) Sophos is warning computer users of the importance of scanning all web traffic for malware following the discovery that webpages on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) website... |
| Is China leaving the Internet's back door open? (24 June 2008) The majority of the Internet's malware-infected websites are located on Chinese networks, finds a new report released today by StopBadware.org, the university-based research initiative... |
| Malware growth at a higher level than ever before (24 June 2008) In its 2008 first half data security summary, F-Secure reports malware growth rate at a higher level than ever before. This recent explosion of malware doesn't necessarily represent... |
| New malicious campaign targeting Olympic games fans (19 June 2008) Sophos is warning computer users to be on their guard against unsolicited emails following the discovery of a new malicious spam campaign that claims another earthquake has just occurred... |
| Trojan2Worm toolkit makes it easy to turn trojans into worms (19 June 2008) Panda Security has detected an application whose main function is to turn an executable file into a worm, giving it the capacity to spread itself. The point-and-click toolkit has been... |
| Virtual worlds face malware reality check (13 June 2008) Gaming industry is consistently stripped of its virtual assets as cyber-crooks continue to exploit gamers in pursuit of financial gain. Virtual worlds can provide an exciting terrain... |
| Storm and the future of social engineering (12 June 2008) In 2007, Storm burst onto the scene and spread rapidly. A new form of malware that propagated using a combination of email and websites, it proved extraordinarily sophisticated. Estimates... |
| Watch out for a sneaky blackmailing virus that encrypts your data (05 June 2008) Kaspersky Lab found a new variant of Gpcode, a dangerous encryptor virus has appeared, - Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak. Gpcode.ak encrypts files with various extensions including, but not limited,... |
