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Worm could be clearing path for DDoS attack
News A new worm that leaves behind two Trojan horse programs has begun spreading over the Internet, and may be paving the way for a crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The IRC bot, when activated, connects to a remote server and waits...
[March 10, 2003, 8:53]
Latest Bagle causes concern
News Any Trojan horse which turns off your antivirus or firewall can open you up to further attack, even by very old viruses," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. Antivirus companies have found a new type of Trojan horse that is...
[March 1, 2005, 12:20]
Malware latches onto Windows updates
News A Trojan, which began circulating in March via spammed email, used an "interesting" technique to download malicious files, said the report. Once infected, the Trojan utilises BITS to download additional malware.
[May 15, 2007, 9:37]
Microsoft plugs Qhosts hole
News The vulnerabilities have been exploited by Trojan horse QHosts to compromise people's PCs when they browse a Web site that has attack code built in. Microsoft releases a cumulative patch for Internet Explorer this weekend, plugging a security hole...
[October 7, 2003, 9:05]
Windows cursor exploit spreads
News Attackers also on Thursday launched a Trojan spam that dupes users into thinking it's an IE 7 beta, according to a Sans advisory. The Trojan uses the same file name as Microsoft's legitimate IE 7 betas, making detection more difficult, Ullrich noted.
[April 2, 2007, 11:05]
Phatbot suspect released on bail
News The 21-year-old programmer from Schoenau in Germany who was accused of writing the Phatbot Trojan was released on bail on Friday after spending just one week in custody. Phatbot, also known as Agobot, has caused concern among many security experts...
[May 14, 2004, 17:00]
Warezov worm surfaces again
News The attachment is a Trojan that downloads the latest version of the worm from a number of websites. Warezov then harvests email addresses from the hard drive and automatically sends emails with the Trojan attached, using its own SMTP engine.
[April 20, 2007, 11:59]
TechNet Webcast: Why I Can Hack Your Network in a Day! [A Live Demonstration of Techniques and Tools Used by Hackers to Compromise Your Network] (Level 300)
White Papers Examples of security attacks it demonstrates: client-side exploits, wireless network attacks, Trojan deployment, Web/SQL-injections, system enumeration, brute force attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, and key logging.
[October 5, 2007, 1:00]
Microsoft closes another hole
News Microsoft on Friday released a patch for Internet Explorer designed to close three critical holes in the browser, including one that paved the way for the Download.Ject Trojan horse. Once we became aware of the specific attack on our customers...
[August 2, 2004, 9:25]
Fake Microsoft security email hides malware
News Attackers are apparently taking advantage of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday to send legitimate-looking mailings to Microsoft customers that include a Trojan virus called Trojan.Backdoor.Haxdoor that could allow attackers to execute files and steal...
[October 15, 2008, 8:36]
Windows image-handling flaw lets in attackers
News Three security flaws in the way Windows handles certain graphics files could create an opening for spyware and Trojan horse attacks, Trojan horses, bots or other harmful programs on an unsuspecting user's machine.
[November 9, 2005, 9:10]
Three men arrested in botnet probe
News The Trojan horse, called W32.Toxbot, was first spotted early this year. Antivirus software does detect the Trojan, but the suspects, in a race with the antivirus software makers, kept tweaking their malicious code to hide it, prosecutors said.
[October 10, 2005, 10:10]
Change of tactics in war on viruses
News With an increase in targeted Trojan attacks, where criminal gangs tailor emails to try to fool recipients into running certain applications or visiting Web sites hosting malicious code, some antivirus vendors argue that mail monitoring services...
[March 1, 2006, 14:35]
Storm worm resurfaces
News The Storm worm is undergoing a resurgence but, unlike the first variant, which had an executable file as an email attachment, the latest Trojan-horse attack is delivered over the web. Jim Dowling, director of Asia sales at Sophos, said in an email...
[August 17, 2007, 12:30]
Storm worm anniversary brings fresh variants
News The attacks are using variants of malicious code known as Troj/Dorf-AP by Sophos and Trojan.Peacomm.D by Symantec. The anniversary week of the first Storm worm attack has brought warnings of more Storm variants being sent out in spam.
[January 18, 2008, 16:13]
Group warns of hacked Sendmail programs
News Such a compromised program -- called a Trojan horse by security experts -- can leave networks exposed to attack and administrators unaware of the vulnerabilities. Some copies of a popular mail-server program are implanted with a back door that...
[October 9, 2002, 8:01]
Latest Phatbot angles for SQL server
News Last month, Phatbot made the rounds, attacking Windows systems by acting as a Trojan horse. A new variant of the Phatbot worm may be on the loose and attempting to attack SQL Server ports, according to a warning that the SANS Institute issued on...
[April 20, 2004, 9:25]
Italian Senate hit by hack attack
News The hack was made possible due to an infection by a variant of the Rbot worm, a backdoor Trojan, which can surrender control of key systems to a hacker. The Italian Senate has been the subject of a hack attack by cybercriminals who uploaded images...
[November 24, 2004, 16:00]
Inside Intel's Sonoma review
Reviews The only other addition to the Pentium M architecture is support for the Execute Disable bit, which with operating system support -- provided by Windows XP Service Pack 2, for example -- can prevent buffer overflow virus or trojan attack code from...
[January 19, 2005, 8:40]
British student prevents computer virus outbreak
News The software engineering student discovered the backdoor Trojan Horse while surfing at his home on the Isle of Wight. The virus was designed to specifically attack people using US Internet chatrooms. A British teenager has prevented the outbreak of...
[August 17, 2001, 9:23]
