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JPEG exploit could beat antivirus, says expert
News According to director of antivirus research for F-Secure Mikko Hypponen, antivirus software will strain to find JPEG malware because by default it only searches for .exe files. Normal antivirus software by default will not detect JPEGs," said...
[September 29, 2004, 14:10]
'Storm Worm' sweeps the globe
News Over an eight-hour period on Thursday, malicious emails were sent across the globe to hundreds of thousands of people, said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for F-Secure. Storm Worm carries the subject line "230 dead as storm batters Europe...
[January 22, 2007, 7:32]
The Year Ahead: The future of viruses
News If (the attack) takes 15 minutes, you have no chance," Hypponen said. The concepts under discussion, Hypponen said, are known as a Warhol worm -- so called because it could create a huge outbreak in 15 minutes -- and a flash worm, which could do...
[December 31, 2002, 6:33]
Antivirus firm improves security after emailing virus
News As a result, the company will no longer accept outside email messages to its list, and attachments will be blocked, said Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research for the company. We immediately understood what happened," said Hypponen, who...
[March 5, 2004, 9:55]
Phone/PDA viruses loom on the horizon
News WAP 1.2 will have more functionality and more dangers," said Hypponen, adding that version 1.2 could find its way into phones within a year. The current protocol [used by Internet-connected phones] -- WAP 1.1 -- is too simple to be used for viruses...
[September 29, 2000, 16:19]
Smartphone 'Trojan' found to be code flaw
News Mikko Hypponen, head of antivirus labs at F-Secure, said there is no "cracked" version of the game because nothing has been added to the code in the illegal game, which is still available on P2P networks.
[August 12, 2004, 14:35]
Worm hits Europe's mobile phones
News This seems to be a political virus," says Mikko Hypponen, manager of anti-virus research at F-Secure Corporation. This is the first ever virus to do anything with mobile phones," adds Hypponen. The worm, dubbed Timophonica, activates via email but...
[June 6, 2000, 14:03]
Firms urged to use unauthorised Windows patch
News Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure, said that he believes corporations can trust the unofficial patch, developed by security software developer Ilfak Guilfanov. The businesses who have installed the patch have said it's...
[January 3, 2006, 16:10]
Nimda floods corporate networks
News Even though it [Nimda] is not meant to be destructive it has very serious side effects," Hypponen said. We have had media companies unable to access publishing, and unable to access their photo archives," said Hypponen.
[September 20, 2001, 12:44]
'Storm Worm' slithers on
News When they first came out, these files were pretty much undetectable by most antivirus programs," said Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure. As most businesses tend to strip executable files out of emails they receive, Hypponen...
[January 22, 2007, 13:06]
JPEG worm found on Instant Messenger
News Antivirus expert Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure yesterday warned that the JPEG exploit can also dodge antivirus technology. We haven't seen any damage reports of this worm," added Hypponen today. A worm that exploits the recently discovered JPEG...
[September 30, 2004, 17:45]
Sunbelt: Small antivirus companies are overwhelmed
News Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for antivirus company F-Secure, agreed that the amount of malware is rising rapidly. The numbers are going through the roof," said Hypponen on Friday. Hypponen said that small antivirus companies need to...
[January 25, 2008, 16:35]
Adobe must step up to the security plate
News In particular, Adobe's patching process is not as robust as Microsoft's, Hypponen and others have said. It really turned around," Hypponen said in an interview last week at Black Hat. The scary statistics prompted Mikko Hypponen, chief research...
[August 7, 2009, 16:03]
Skulls may not mean skullduggery, says Symbian
News We've been contacting all the download sites with this file and asking them not to distribute it," said director of antivirus research for F-Secure Mikko Hypponen. Hypponen added that the program was not technically a virus because it does not...
[November 22, 2004, 16:10]
Microsoft prepares Windows patch CD
News One of the biggest problems we're facing today is that viruses manage to infect and spread through the large number of unpatched computers on the Internet," said Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus company F-Secure.
[December 5, 2003, 16:10]
Researchers: Cyberattacks outstripping defences
News Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at security company F-Secure, agreed that malicious codes in the market today are a lot more advanced and stealthy than those previously seen. Banking Trojans", for instance, are the latest iteration of...
[September 7, 2007, 9:51]
Haxdoor Trojan claims thousands of UK victims
News It's a nasty case," said Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure. Anything you type gets archived," Hypponen told ZDNet UK. The data is then sold on the black market, according to Hypponen.
[October 11, 2006, 16:15]
Video: Why Vista is a safe bet — for now
News In the second of a two-part interview, F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen argues that Microsoft Vista attracts little attention from hackers because of its low uptake since its launch in November. Hypponen also cautions on problems arising from the...
[April 27, 2007, 16:28]
Video: Hackers tailor malware to individual businesses
News But that's not the end of organisations' security headaches, as F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen reveals further problems with mobile devices and online-banking Trojans. High-profile businesses now face the evolution of traditional malware attacks, as...
[April 25, 2007, 15:04]
F-Secure answers .bank criticisms
News Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure's chief research officer, first suggested the .bank TLD at the beginning of May. Hypponen said that to buy a .bank domain name should be prohibitively expensive to anyone but banks, and would make online banking more secure.
[May 21, 2007, 12:41]
