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How botnets' rise foretells malware's future

How botnets' rise foretells malware's future

...all that for good with Mytob essentially a blend of an earlier mass mailing worm MyDoom and SDbot. This worm enabled criminals to build large... Read more

15 October, 2010 by Rik Ferguson

Lovgate worm starts to spread

...TAMAGOTXI.EXE. According to the company's initial analysis, Lovgate is a mass-mailing worm that incorporates an SMTP engine and a backdoor component. In... Read more

24 February, 2003 by Graham Hayday

Help & HowTo: Sobig.C

The mass-mailing worm is spreading on the Internet, using spoofed email addresses to... Read more

2 June, 2003 by Robert Vamosi

Gibe worm poses as a Microsoft update

...to be an update from Microsoft, but if triggered it is a mass-mailing worm Read more

7 March, 2002 by Robert Vamosi

New varieties of Bagle should be toast

The latest versions of the mass-mailing bagle worm are spreading fast but should, experts suggest, be contained with ease Read more

28 January, 2005 by Matt Hines

Sasser's heirs spread slowly

...on Friday. The new pest, Lebreat, is a combined network worm and mass-mailing worm, F-Secure said. Once run on a PC, it installs... Read more

18 July, 2005 by Joris Evers

New mass-mailer on the march

...and over a dozen reported since the beginning of March, the Mytob mass-mailing worm appears to be evolving rapidly. On Monday, security software maker... Read more

30 March, 2005 by Matt Hines

Saddam used as worm lure

...Photos of a "dead" Saddam Hussein are the lure for a new mass-mailing worm, Sophos warned on Thursday, in the latest instance of attackers... Read more

4 February, 2005 by Dawn Kawamoto

Warning of gestating worm

...MessageLabs has issued an early warning to antivirus vendors that a new mass-mailing worm may be on the march. The anti-virus community had... Read more

16 February, 2004 by ZDNet UK

Lirva worm attaches to Avril Lavigne

...computer viruses. Lirva (w32.Lirva@mm), also known as Naith, is a mass-mailing worm that is UPX-compressed to a file size of 32... Read more

8 January, 2003 by Robert Vamosi

MyParty worm is an unwelcome guest

...rating the MyParty virus as a medium risk. Initial reports of the mass-mailing worm were received on Sunday evening, and the rate of infection... Read more

28 January, 2002 by Wendy McAuliffe

Second Christmas card virus Ataks users

...Virus writers have released another seasonal mass-mailing worm that poses as an email Christmas card Read more

16 December, 2004 by Dan Ilet

Bilingual worm masquerades as Microsoft patch

Sober.D, a mass-mailing worm, pretends to be official protection against the rival MyDoom virus... Read more

8 March, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

Swen worm tops virus charts

The Swen mass-mailing worm is being taken more seriously as it begins a rapid... Read more

19 September, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

Email worm exploits 11 September

...have information about the 11 September attacks on the US releases a mass mailing worm Read more

11 September, 2002 by Margaret Kane

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