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Redesi worm reformats C: drives

...to most people more like junk email. In the first case, the email worm comes with a header randomly selected from a list that includes... Read more

18 October, 2001 by Matt Loney

Bug hunters find 'cookie' hole in IE

Personal information can be had if the victim uses Internet Explorer and clicks on a disguised string of JavaScript code. MS says a patch is coming Read more

12 May, 2000 by ZDNet

Mimail variant trys PayPal fraud

Another variant of the Mimail worm is on the loose, using a PayPal scam to try and gather credit card details Read more

14 November, 2003 by Andy McCue

Feds warn of new worm threat

A new malicious program - dubbed 'Leaves' - infects previously compromised PCs and seemingly prepares the machines to launch a DoS attack Read more

26 June, 2001 by Robert Lemos

Google mistake spreads email worm

Google on Tuesday inadvertently sent the Kama Sutra email worm to the 50,000 subscribers of a Google Video email group... Read more

9 November, 2006 by Joris Evers

Email worm exploits 11 September

A new email worm has surfaced that uses the terror attacks of 11 September to... Read more

11 September, 2002 by Margaret Kane

New 'anthrax' email worm is a dud

An email worm trying to take advantage of people's fears of anthrax has... Read more

17 October, 2001 by Robert Lemos

New email worm attacks Outlook

Antivirus experts have issued warnings of a new email worm that makes use of the Microsoft Outlook mail client. Troj_Apost... Read more

4 September, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Beware: New Email Worm ILOVEYOU On the Loose

...concerned. Turns out half the country got the same message, a virulent email worm called the Love Bug. By noon it had caused an estimated... Read more

5 May, 2000 by Jesse Berst

Sophos spots return of 'old-timer' email worm

The three-year-old Traxg worm accounted for nearly a quarter of email-borne malware in November Read more

5 December, 2007 by Lynn Tan

Email worm graduates to IM

The Chod.B worm is now spreading over Microsoft's instant-messaging service, after first being observed spreading over email systems last week Read more

4 April, 2005 by Munir Kotadia

Email worm attacks child porn

A worm called Noped searches for child porn and alerts the authorities, but British police say they will not respond Read more

29 May, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Jesse Berst: Devastating email worm on the loose

I hate worms. You should too. Not the creepy-crawlers, not William Hague -- the high-tech kind. And we've got one loose right now that's very nasty. Read more

11 June, 1999 by Jesse Berst
Modeling and Simulation Study of the Propagation and Defense of Internet <endeca_term>Email Worm</endeca_term>

Modeling and Simulation Study of the Propagation and Defense of Internet Email Worm

As many people rely on email communications for business and everyday life, Internet email worms constitute one of the... Read more

5 January, 2007

Florida man charged in botnet attack on Akamai

...year-old John Bombard of Seminole used a variant of the Gaobot email worm to turn computers — including systems at two universities whose names have... Read more

25 October, 2006 by Caroline McCarthy

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