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Skulls Trojan Wears Antivirus Mask
News A new variant of the Skulls Trojan horse for cell phones is trying to trap victims by posing as antivirus software, F-Secure has warned. The Skulls Trojan horse, which affects Symbian-based cell phones, first surfaced in November.
[June 13, 2005, 10:45]
Symbian's Security Problems Worsen
News A Trojan horse has been created that causes smartphones to crash, security software maker F-Secure has warned. The Finnish company posted details of the Trojan horse, which they've named Fontal.A, on Wednesday.
[April 7, 2005, 10:20]
Trojan Horses Targeting Sony DRM Rootkit Found
News The Stinx-E Trojan horse, found by antivirus vendor Sophos, has been sent out in spam and uses filenames such as Article+Photos.exe and poses as a message from a British business magazine. This Trojan horse allows hackers to gain access to a PC...
[November 10, 2005, 16:25]
Bagle Pops Up Again
News It then attempts to download and run a Trojan horse that hijacks the infected PC for use as part of a botnet. Some iterations have been more sophisticated than others, blending mass-mailing and Trojan horse techniques.
[June 29, 2005, 8:55]
Malware's Next Trick
News But the attachment in this case had a suffix of .pdf.exe, was actually a Trojan horse that planted spyware on the user's PC. And in March, he spotted a Trojan horse that plants itself on the mobile phone and calls a premium rate number in Russia...
[April 18, 2006, 16:40]
Mobile Trojan Launches Skulls Attack
News A new variant of the Skulls Trojan horse that affects Symbian mobile phones has been discovered. F-Secure reported on Monday that this new version, called Skulls.D, kills off all system applications in the same manner as previous variants.
[January 6, 2005, 15:50]
Second Christmas Card Virus Ataks Users
News According to F-Secure, the virus contains no Trojan horse -- a tool that virus writers often use to take remote control of computers. According to antivirus company F-Secure on Thursday, reports are rolling in of Atak.H, which poses as a Christmas...
[December 16, 2004, 12:15]
Massive Demand For Unauthorised Windows Patch
News Several attacks have been detected since late December, and on Wednesday experts detected another Trojan horse that exploits the WMF vulnerability. According to antivirus firm F-Secure, demand for the unauthorised Windows Meta File (WMF) patch...
[January 4, 2006, 16:15]
Firms Urged To Use Unauthorised Windows Patch
News As reported last week, the WMF vulnerability can be exploited by Trojan horse malware to compromise a PC — by installing spyware on it or by turning it into part of a botnet. Both antivirus vendor F-Secure and volunteer security group the
[January 3, 2006, 16:10]
Christmas Card Worm Rips Back Door In PCs
News The worm then uses a Trojan horse program to open a back door that allows hackers to take remote control of infected PCs. The timing for this worm is critical," said Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research for F-Secure.
[December 14, 2004, 16:10]
First IPhone Trojan In The Wild
News This is technically the first Trojan horse seen for the iPhone; however, it does appear to be more of a prank than an actual threat," Cox wrote in a blog post. The first warnings about the Trojan were posted on Saturday on the iPhone modification...
[January 8, 2008, 16:30]
Hacking Threat Goes Mobile
News He believes that by the start of 2003, email worms will start spreading between smaller mobile devices such as PDAs, and said that by the middle of the same year computer hackers will be targeting mobile devices with Trojan Horse programs...
[April 25, 2001, 14:37]
Google Used In Phishing Attack
News According to security specialist F-Secure, unsuspecting Web surfers may be bombarded with various types of Trojan horse threats, spyware and backdoors when they go to "Googkle.com". In an advisory, F-Secure strongly advises people not to go to...
[April 28, 2005, 9:45]
Virus Jumps From PC To PDA
News Security firm F-Secure last September found a Trojan horse that attempts to spread from smartphones to users' PCs, marking one of the first cases of virus "cross-sharing" between the two devices. F-Secure said Tuesday on its blog that it hasn't...
[March 1, 2006, 8:45]
CommWarrior Guns For Nokias
News Antivirus researchers are investigating a new Trojan horse that could prove to be a more pervasive threat to mobile phones than Cabir. F-Secure, SimWorks International and other security providers issued reports about the threat on Monday.
[March 8, 2005, 8:00]
Smartphone-breaking Symbian Trojan Found
News A new Symbian Trojan horse called Doomboot.A has been found which loads the virus CommWarrior.B onto Symbian Series 60 smartphones. The user can only avoid data loss if they disinfect the phone before the battery runs out, according to Finnish...
[July 4, 2005, 18:00]
Online Gamblers Targeted By Scams
News It warned them that a social-engineering scam was attempting to direct users to a site that would drop a Trojan horse onto their computer, effectively surrendering control of the PC to an unknown third party.
[May 19, 2006, 11:05]
Phone/PDA Viruses Loom On The Horizon
News In August, a Trojan horse posing as cracking software for the Liberty Game Boy emulator deleted the programs from Palms. The current protocol [used by Internet-connected phones] -- WAP 1.1 -- is too simple to be used for viruses," said Mikko...
[September 29, 2000, 16:19]
Latest Bagle Causes Concern
News Antivirus companies have found a new type of Trojan horse that is being massmailed around the world by spammers. Any Trojan horse which turns off your antivirus or firewall can open you up to further attack, even by very old viruses," said Graham...
[March 1, 2005, 12:20]
Symbian Phones Targeted By 'Skulls' Trojan
News Virus writers are targeting Symbian-based mobile phones with a Trojan horse that kills off system applications and replaces their icons with images of skulls. Only a few people have managed to run across the program on the Web and then downloaded...
[November 22, 2004, 8:05]
