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IM Becoming More Popular Malware Target, Study Finds

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

As the use of instant messaging for business and consumer purposes grows, so does the allure of writing malware targeting IM. A study released yesterday by IMlogic, which sells IM security products, reported that the number of attacks on IM systems jumped dramatically during the second quarter. The IMlogic Threat Center study found that more…

Viruses for Vista Offer Glimpse Into Malware’s Future

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Although F-Secure, a Finnish antivirus company, reports that it has discovered the first malicious code targeted at Microsoft’s Windows Vista (formerly code-named Longhorn), the command shell the hacker cracked is not an integral part of the new operating system. Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer, F-Secure, told TechNewsWorld that the five proof-of-concept viruses the company found…

Worms Wreaking Havoc on Windows Users

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

As of yesterday afternoon, users of computers running the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system were feeling serious affects of network worms, thanks to a Plug-and-Play vulnerability known as MS05-309. Media outlets including CNN, ABC, the Associated Press and The New York Times have suffered computer shutdowns, and analysts said we haven’t seen the end of…

Analyst Hopes Zotob Arrests Slow Malware Activity

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Although law enforcement officials have arrested two men they believe wrote the Mytob and Zotob worms, one security expert said there may not be much enterprises can do to stop such infections from striking again. “There’s little to learn,” Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research, F-Secure, told TechNewsWorld about the lessons of the malware attacks.…

Analyst Hopes Zotob Arrests Will Curb Worm Attacks

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Although law enforcement officials have arrested two men they believe wrote the Mytob and Zotob worms, one security expert said there may not be much enterprises can do to stop such infections from striking again. “There’s little to learn,” Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research, F-Secure, told TechNewsWorld about the lessons of the malware attacks.…

Arrests Offer Glimpse Into Hacker Culture

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

There’s a wealth of information out there for hackers, or “black hats,” as they are also called. The arrest last Thursday of alleged Zotob writer Farid Essebar, 18, who went by the name Diabl0, has shed some light on the thriving underground culture, but much remains a mystery. The hacker underworld in which Essebar participated…

Critics: Ask Jeeves Silently Serves Software

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Anti-spyware and other security software makers are saying the butler did it, claiming search player Ask Jeeves is installing software on users’ machines without properly notifying them or confirming their consent. The issue has caused questions about whether the software and features Ask Jeeves is delivering its users is adware, spyware or otherware, but analysts…

Symantec Report: Profit-Driven Desktop Attacks on the Rise

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Today’s virus outbreaks are not as loud as the Code Red attacks of a couple years ago, but beneath the quieter computing landscape is a perilous push to turn the growing amount of personal computers and personal information into profit through cybercrime, the latest Threat Report from security firm Symantec indicated this week. The Symantec…

New Trojan Tries to Leap From Phone to PC

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Antivirus experts have found a virus that can move from mobile phones to computers, but analysts say the bug is neither very dangerous nor very sophisticated. The Trojan, called CARDTRP.A or Sybos/Cardtrap.A by different antivirus vendors, is rated as a low risk by Trend Micro. F-Secure calls it “unremarkable” except that it runs on the…

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