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Combatting Malicious Mobile Code
White Papers Although designed with functionality in mind, the adoption of these technologies within popular Internet applications and operating systems has led to the widespread problem of viruses, Trojan horses and their attacks, worms, and script attacks.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
'Survivor' Site Contains Malicious Code
Talkback For those of you wanting to know what the website url is - well it would be totally inappropriate and irresponsible to post such a thing as less security minded people reading this article may veture there not knowing how to secure their machines...
[May 20, 2004, 6:12]
Word Flaw Opens Door To Trojan Horse
News The Trojan horse appears as text file in the rich text format, or RTF, attached to an e-mail, according to British antivirus software company Kaspersky Labs, which first found the malicious program. By using a macro saved in a template hosted on...
[June 15, 2001, 8:31]
Experts Warn Of JPEG-based Virus Attack
News The code posted to Easynews, which Symantec has dubbed Trojan.Moo, was apparently created with the automated tool released by several hackers. A Trojan that exploits a recent critical flaw in Microsoft Windows' handling of JPEG images has been...
[September 29, 2004, 8:55]
New Security Risk From Trojan Horses
News SubSeven is a set of hacker tools that is also used as a Trojan horse, which allows an intruder to deliver malicious code to or take control of a user's computer. A Trojan horse such as SubSeven can be used to damage the host computer or also to...
[July 9, 2001, 13:41]
Attackers Exploit 'extremely Critical Flaw' In Word
News That malicious file contained the Trojan horse Mdropper.J, which then dropped the Booli.A program on a user's system. Security company Symantec, which several days ago detected the exploit, Trojan MDropper.Q, noted that it uses a two-step attack.
[September 5, 2006, 17:00]
Trojan Horse Exploits Explorer Flaw
News When a page containing the booby-trapped ad is displayed in Internet Explorer, the malicious code will automatically install the Trojan horse on the user's PC. Such an attack is referred to as a Trojan horse.
[October 3, 2003, 8:45]
Handhelds: More Social, Less Secure
News While the Trojan has done little damage, that could change. Such is the case with the Liberty Crack Trojan horse. Once a user copies the program to a PC and syncs their Palm device, the Trojan deletes applications from the handheld.
[August 30, 2000, 13:26]
Computer Prank Slips Past Security Experts
News A Trojan horse posing as a security tool did just that Wednesday night, when experts at SecurityFocus.com -- which moderates the popular Bugtraq security list -- sent the mildly malicious code to the list's 37,000 users.
[February 2, 2001, 8:55]
Trojan Exploits Unpatched IE Flaw
News Malicious software that exploits the security flaw to download a Trojan horse to vulnerable computers has been found on the Internet, according to Microsoft. The security bug, exploited by the Trojan downloader, was originally reported in May.
[December 1, 2005, 7:50]
Free Software Servers Breached
News During that week, the intruder compromised the system and installed a piece of malicious code known as a Trojan horse, according to evidence found on the machine. The Trojan stayed in place until it was discovered in the last week of July, the...
[August 14, 2003, 11:50]
Cybercrooks Get Better At Concealing Code
News The sites, the bulk of which are compromised sites, often drop a Trojan horse or other pest onto a PC through a security hole in the web browser. He has spotted an encoded script function called "makemelaugh" that downloads a Trojan horse that...
[April 19, 2007, 10:53]
Handhelds Are The New Targets For Viruses
News In Japan, a Trojan horse that appeared on i-mode phones caused the devices to dial the country's emergency-services number. The problem, he said, is that no truly dangerous virus or Trojan horse has yet been created for mobile devices, making...
[March 20, 2001, 9:29]
Minimal Impact Of Palm Trojan Hides Future Danger
News This, combined with the Trojan horse's extremely obvious payload and lack of replication code means it is unlikely to be encountered by the vast majority of users. Antivirus vendors report that the first Trojan horse program to affect the Palm...
[August 30, 2000, 14:37]
Virus Writers Claim Blair's Email Account Was Hacked
News The email contains a link to a Web site that can infect computers that accessed it with password-stealing Trojan horses, antivirus company Sophos claimed. Clicking on the link takes users to a Web site which invisibly installs a Trojan horse on the...
[May 6, 2005, 14:55]
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. Xombe, also known as Trojan.Xombe, Downloader-GJ and Troj/Dloader-L, was being distributed on Friday and poses as a critical update for...
[January 12, 2004, 11:10]
New Back Orifice-like Trojan Horse Found
News The Trojan horse arrives in a user's e-mail posing as a screen saver or game update, but once executed, it turns the victim's PC into an "open client. BackDoor-G already has a variant -- a very similar Trojan named "Armageddon" was discovered in...
[May 28, 1999, 8:51]
Should You Be Worried About IM Security?
News Until now, all the IM threats reported have been Trojan attacks that sit on top of IM software code, rather than a worm that takes advantage of a flaw to penetrate the applications themselves. The software maker says that it is already working hard...
[March 22, 2005, 14:20]
'Storm Worm' Slithers On
News Security vendors believe many home users to have been infected after a large-scale sustained Trojan attack that took place over the weekend. The Trojan, named "Storm Worm" by antivirus vendor F-Secure, first started to spread on Friday as extreme...
[January 22, 2007, 13:06]
Toxic Blogs Threaten Web Users
News The blog can be used as a storage mechanism, which keeps malicious code that can be accessed by a Trojan horse that has already been hidden on the user's computer… [blogs] do not require any identity authentication to post information, and most...
[October 4, 2005, 9:35]
