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SCO offers reward for MyDoom author
News Microsoft announced in early November that the company had created a $5m fund to reward those who help convict specific virus writers. If Microsoft is serious about their efforts to capture virus writers, they will definitely put out a bounty on...
[January 28, 2004, 7:35]
Bagle turns to verse
News I don't anticipate this one to last long," he said, adding that the variant has had some initial success because the worm attaches itself to email in a control panel file, which is an executable not used by virus writers before.
[April 27, 2004, 8:40]
Bluetooth viruses pose growing threat
News David Emm, a senior technology consultant at antivirus company Kaspersky Labs, expects that virus writers will increasingly target mobile phones. Cabir was the first to attack smartphones, I expect that target will become more and more attractive...
[January 5, 2005, 13:25]
Email worm graduates to IM
News According to Biviano, viruses in the past have tried to look like they were sent by Microsoft but this is the first time virus writers have tried to pass off a virus as a message from an antivirus company.
[April 4, 2005, 9:45]
Phone/PDA viruses loom on the horizon
News His fear is that virus writers may take some of that know-how and use it for creating the next digital disease. Hypponen, who follows the virus exchange underground, sees many kids -- not just virus writers -- interested in personalising their PDAs...
[September 29, 2000, 16:19]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We've suffered at the hands of the virus writers and worm-mongers. I think any major package should have a credit screen just like a movie, and if the software business got its act together and created an equivalent of the Writers Guild it could be...
[April 30, 2004, 13:15]
Microsoft creates $5m virus-hunting fund
News Microsoft will work with law enforcement to track down writers of worms, viruses and other malicious code, and is ponying up $5m (£2.98m) to fund the search. As previously reported, the project will include $250,000 bounty for information leading...
[November 5, 2003, 15:05]
US Telecoms giant looks at throwing Windows out
Talkback Virus/Worm writers are after the biggest bang, and targeting 2-5% of home users isn't worth it, when you can target 90-95%. Virus/Worms are targeted at home users, and most home users are running Windows, hence most viruses are for windows.
[October 8, 2004, 15:05]
Me Code Write Good: The l33t Skillz of the Virus Writer
White Papers With some virus writers on the bleeding edge of technology, making use of 0-day exploits and innovative techniques to circumvent system security features. From exploitable vulnerabilities in their code to incomprehensible goofs there's no shortage...
[December 16, 2006, 0:00]
Me Code Write Good: The l33t Skillz of the Virus Writer
White Papers With some virus writers on the bleeding edge of technology, making use of 0-day exploits and innovative techniques to circumvent system security features. From exploitable vulnerabilities in their code to incomprehensible goofs there's no shortage...
[December 16, 2006, 0:00]
Australians face devious phishing scam
Talkback But the point I'd make is this: do virus/worm writers target windows boxes because (a) they are the least secure or (b) because 95% of boxes connected to the internet are owned by non-techie John Doe and running a Microsoft OS?
[April 6, 2004, 13:44]
Malware variant trend reflects police action
News Carole Theriault, a security consultant at security software firm Sophos, believes that the explosion in the number of variants of the Mytob worm and Bagle virus could be due to virus writers taking a lower profile and enlisting script kiddies to...
[June 1, 2005, 15:50]
Anti-virus companies attack 'Friendly Greeting'
News The writers of the worm, Permissioned Media of Panama, were using the Friend Greeting Application as a mass marketing tool that posed as e-card software. The "Friend Greeting Application", which made headlines earlier this month by being the first...
[November 29, 2002, 9:02]
Spammers get fussy as zombie army grows
News Although Bobax is unlikely to spread very far because larger companies have already applied the relevant Microsoft patches, its behaviour shows that virus writers and professional spammers have taken control of more than enough computers to fulfil...
[May 21, 2004, 17:15]
Ex-virus writer questioned over Slammer
News Police are questioning Benny, a former member of the 29A virus writers' club, over the Internet worm Slammer. Cluley said this could be because of increased police pressure on virus writers. It seems that the police have questioned him about a...
[November 29, 2004, 13:35]
.Net virus hits C# note
News Virus writers have taken another shot at Microsoft's .Net vision. Sharpei is "not in the wild" -- a term used by the antivirus industry to mean that no customers have yet been infected -- but if released, the virus would merely be a mass-mailing...
[March 4, 2002, 10:39]
Rewards shift nature of worm hunt
News He recently spoke with ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com about Microsoft's ongoing battle with virus writers. If you have involvement in the virus or worm that has been launched, you are not eligible for a reward.
[June 11, 2004, 11:25]
Skulls Trojan teams up with Cabir worm
Talkback Symbian virus writers have now decided to have another go at this. The Camtimer/Cabir.b worm combo (Camtimer.a) packaged with Skulls.b was not pack correctly and the Cabir virus would not auto-start. The Cabir worm found in Skulls.b was packaged...
[December 3, 2004, 6:14]
MyDoom offshoots add anti-removal code
News Security experts warned on Friday that several new versions of MyDoom have surfaced on the Internet, suggesting that worm writers are taking a stab at improving the venerable virus. Another plausible theory is that the writer or writers behind the...
[September 13, 2004, 9:20]
Skulls Trojan teams up with Cabir worm
News Virus writers have unleashed a second version of the morbid-looking Symbian Trojan 'Skulls' and packaged it with one of the first mobile phone viruses, dubbed Cabir. The resulting hybrid 'Skulls.B' displays images of skulls on Symbian handsets...
[November 29, 2004, 16:50]
