Warning Issued Over Fake FBI Emails
News The mail is disguised as correspondence warning people that their Internet use has been monitored by the FBI's Internet Fraud Complaint Center and that they have "accessed illegal Web sites. In a statement released late on Tuesday, the FBI detailed...
[February 24, 2005, 11:30]
Mimail Supplants Klez As Virus Spreads
News The message is disguised as an announcement from the target's ISP administrator -- it invariably "spoofs" the address "admin@targetdomain.xxx". Despite being far less complex than the Klez worm, which used network shares and emails to spread, the...
[August 8, 2003, 8:55]
Facebook Enabling Tailored Email Attacks
News In the attack claiming to be from the Better Business Bureau, the attachment was a rich text format document that contained an executable program disguised as a PDF file. In the September attack, more than 1,000 senior executives were sent messages...
[November 21, 2007, 11:24]
Xombe Trojan Imitates Microsoft Security Warning
News An email disguised as a message from Microsoft's security team contains a dangerous Trojan horse called Xombe. The email, which appears to have been sent from windowsupdate@microsoft.com, has the subject line "Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Express...
[January 12, 2004, 11:10]
Bilingual Worm Masquerades As Microsoft Patch
News This is not the first time that a worm has disguised itself as a Microsoft update. The email appears to be a Microsoft patch so people will of course double-click on that attachment. According to Finnish antivirus company F-Secure, Sober.D spreads...
[March 8, 2004, 11:40]
Swen Worm Tops Virus Charts
News Antivirus companies warned on Thursday that the worm, variously known as I-Worm.Swen, W32/Swen.A@mm or W32/Gibe@MM.e, had the potential to spread quickly because it is well-disguised as a security update from Microsoft.
[September 19, 2003, 15:55]
Beware The 'Happy New Year' Worm
News An email worm disguised as a New Year's greeting is making the rounds on the internet. Worm-laden messages are titled "Happy New Year" and contain an attachment called either postcard.exe or postcard.zip, according to experts at VeriSign's iDefense...
[January 2, 2007, 7:57]
Trojan Attack Targets Top Executives
News C-level employees of publicly listed companies are being targeted by cybercriminals using malware-infected rich text file documents disguised as recruitment letters. What it had in the attachment is an executable RTF file," a MessageLabs...
[September 25, 2007, 9:23]
MyDoom Attack Dies Away After 12 Hours
News McAfee's Clark said that, unlike a Trojan horse distributed late last week disguised as suicide pictures of Osama Bin Laden, this variant of MyDoom didn't make any original effort to persuade users to open its attachment.
[July 27, 2004, 13:40]
New Breed Of Psychological Viruses Emerge
News Cluley says people need to remain on the look out for suspect attachments over the Christmas period as many viruses will come disguised as festive gifts such as tunes and screensavers. It used a number of ways to get people to click on the...
[December 7, 2000, 6:04]
Email Christmas Cards: Just Say Ho Ho No
Leader At least two mass-mailing worms are out there disguised as seasonal greetings: click on these Trojan reindeer, however, and your PC risks spending Christmas as a zombie. If you must send greetings this Christmas, write them on a real card and put...
[December 17, 2004, 11:00]
Trojan Horse Uses War As Cover
News In 2003 a virus was disguised as pictures of Julia Roberts in a compromising position. According to antivirus firm Panda Software, Famus.B is not spreading very quickly but because it is based on the Iraq war, people are bound to open the attachment.
[October 26, 2004, 11:30]
Warezov Worm Surfaces Again
News Like previous variants of Warezov, the worm spreads via email, disguised as an attachment. The attachment is a Trojan that downloads the latest version of the worm from a number of websites. Security vendor Kaspersky has reported a new variant of...
[April 20, 2007, 11:59]
Swiss Bank Says Password Attack Hasn't Bitten
News Disguised as a job application attached to an email message, the virus downloads a program that steals passwords, called a "Hooker", and emails the information to an anonymous mail address. Although USB says the risk of the virus is minimal, it...
[August 18, 2000, 10:22]
Latest Trojan Is Disguised As Security Warning
News According to antivirus company Sophos, a Trojan horse dubbed 'fakespy' was sent to many unsuspecting email users as an attachment, and has been fooling some people into believing they have a security problem with their computer.
[April 28, 2005, 18:00]
Melissa-X Disguised As Mac Doc
News For now, the virus attachment has appeared as "anniv.doc", although Gullotto cautioned this could change. Computer virus experts say a new variant of the Melissa virus is spreading, this time in the guise of a Macintosh-formatted Microsoft Office...
[January 19, 2001, 7:33]
