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Although Ransomware is new, Most of you haven't heard of it. But soon you will.
Ransomware is a type of malware that uses a weak (breakable) cryptosystem to encrypt the data belonging to an individual, demanding a ransom for its restoration. A cryptovirus, cryptotrojan or cryptoworm on the other...
Read More | Feb 15th, 2008
Kaspersky Lab has published its list of the most prevalent viruses for the end of 2007, and although an email worm retains the top spot the more interesting stuff is happening immediately below it in the rankings of shame.
Specifically, the second, fourth and seventh places which are all occupied...
Read More | Jan 2nd, 2008 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Jan 7th, 2008
According to security researchers at BitDefender a new Trojan has been discovered which hijacks text based Google adverts and replaces them with ads from a totally different provider. Trojan.Qhost.WU acts by modifying the infected computers' Hosts file to include a line which redirects the web...
Read More | Dec 24th, 2007
All is not well for Apple, in a week when it should be flag waving the release of Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard' the firm finds itself, and its users, under attack instead. The culprit being a new Trojan which, once installed, changes the Mac's domain name system server. This kind of DNSChanger Trojan is...
Read More | Nov 2nd, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Nov 9th, 2007
The number crunchers at security specialists Sophos have published the figures revealing which bits of malware have been spreading the fastest during August. While the fact that infected spam attachments have dropped from one in 322 for the first six months of the year to one in every 1000 for...
Read More | Sep 3rd, 2007 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Sep 4th, 2007
Romanian security developer BitDefender has issued a warning about a fast spreading Trojan dubbed Spammer.HotLan.A which is using Hotmail and Yahoo accounts to send spam. According to BitDefencer some 15,000 accounts have already been compromised and the situation is likely to get much worse over...
Read More | Jul 6th, 2007
IT security and control firm Sophos is warning of an ongoing spam campaign which promises not only a trailer featuring, but also free tickets to see, the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End’ movie.
The warning signs are all there, the familiar skull-and-crossbones logo of the...
Read More | May 25th, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: May 25th, 2007
My friends over at security specialists Sophos have warned me to be on the lookout for Sandra and her stiletto shoes when using Skype. Usually it would be my mother offering this advice, but then she would not understand the implications of getting infected by the Pykse-A worm that exploits the...
Read More | Apr 17th, 2007 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: Apr 18th, 2007
My original news story here at DaniWeb has certainly caused something of a media frenzy. Everyone from specialist GPS and gadget websites through to national newspapers have been covering how TomTom let an unspecified number of its GO 910 satnav devices escape from the factory with not one but two...
Read More | Feb 1st, 2007
It started with an email from a worried satnav user, Lloyd Reid of Trichromic LLP an IT consultant who knows his way around a computer and knows a virus when his AV software flags one up. The cause for his concern being a newly purchased TomTom GO 910 satnav unit that, once connected to his PC,...
Read More | Jan 28th, 2007 | Comments: 5 | Last Comment: 1 Day Ago
