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Say hello to Feliz.Trojan and Armagidon

News The statement seemed somewhat ironic, since the lack of a malicious payload or any mention of it by other anti-virus firms suggested that CA itself is capitalising on those fears. Otherwise, CA doesn't report any malicious payload in the virus.

[January 5, 2000, 9:04]

First worm to hit Oracle databases found

News Today, the payload is not malicious. But adding a malicious payload to it can do enormous damage," he said. A real malicious Oracle worm could destroy thousands of Oracle databases within hours and cause a damage of several billion dollars," he said.

[November 2, 2005, 10:30]

Firefox flaw made public

Talkback If he can tweak in a malicious payload, this description is not true. If the description is true, then this is a crash bug, and not a remote execution exploit (unless a string of dashes is a malicious code snippet).

[September 9, 2005, 19:20]

OS Independent Run-Time System Integrity Services

White Papers Such attacks often disable intrusion detection systems in order to execute malicious payload. A majority of critical server vulnerabilities in 2003 and 2004 were memory based. Today's advanced viruses and worms attack software running in memory to...

[November 7, 2007, 0:00]

Interaction Between: Nokia Intrusion Prevention and Nokia Firewall

White Papers However, firewalls inherently need to allow SMTP/email, FTP, SIP/VoIP calls, and other protocols with minimal payload security inspection, which may also allow external threat sources to infect internal end-points and use them as threat sources.

[November 18, 2008, 0:00]

Misplaced Trust - RFID Tags as Malware Carriers

White Papers This malicious code can be spread through RFID tags, and deliver a payload to the soft-ware backend of the architecture. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)is a technology that is becoming more and more prevalent as a means of identifying objects...

[October 2, 2009, 1:23]

'Survivor' site contains malicious code

News While antivirus vendors only rank the script Trojans as moderate or low risks, they may be designed to prompt a computer accessing the site to automatically download a secondary payload from another location on the Internet.

[May 13, 2004, 10:35]

IM worms step up a gear

News A new worm that targets users of America Online's AOL Instant Messenger is believed to be the first that actually chats with the intended victim to dupe the target into activating a malicious payload, IM security vendor IMlogic warned Tuesday.

[December 7, 2005, 8:45]

New Sobig strain hijacks PCs to relay spam

News Initial analysis by antivirus companies indicated that the mass-mailing computer worm, called Sobig.E, doesn't have a malicious payload. The malicious program is contained in an 80KB attachment to the message.

[June 26, 2003, 7:55]

Witty 'probably an ISS inside job'

News Its payload was malicious, corrupting the information on a system's hard drive. Worms and other malicious programs often randomly generate and connect to IP addresses, including ones not in use. A year after the Witty worm infected over 12,000...

[May 26, 2005, 16:15]

'Gumblar' web attacks spreading quickly

News The attacks' malicious payload has, however, continued to be delivered from a different source, the martuz.cn domain, Unmask Parasites said in an advisory published on Monday. The attackers behind a series of rapidly spreading website compromises...

[May 19, 2009, 11:14]

Botnet worm exploits Symantec flaw

News The threat appears to be widespread, Maiffret said.eEye is tracking a server used by the worm to download part of its malicious payload; that server has pushed data out to more than 60,000 systems, he said.

[December 18, 2006, 9:02]

Most UK companies 'still vulnerable' to blended attacks

News These exploit an existing vulnerability to gain access to a system, then deploy a malicious payload. The firm interviewed 200 IT directors from medium to large firms in Europe during August, a period which coincided with the outbreak of several...

[October 29, 2003, 15:45]

Viruses Zipped into clever disguises

News An attacker can compress a malicious payload and evade detection by some antivirus software by modifying the uncompressed size within the local and global headers… Successful exploitation allows remote attackers to pass malicious

[October 19, 2004, 11:30]

Klez virus set to wipe itself out

News On infected PCs, the computer virus activates a malicious payload and overwrites any file accessible to it -- both local and on the network -- of the following types: .txt, .htm, .html, .wab, .doc, .xls, .jpg, .cpp, .c, .pas, .mpg, .mpeg, .bak and...

[September 6, 2002, 10:16]

New security hole found in MS Word

News The malicious file caused Word 2000 to crash, but did not run the malicious payload, it added. The malicious software arrives as a Microsoft Word file attachment to an email. The targeted attack can bypass spam filters, and Symantec's antivirus...

[May 22, 2006, 9:45]

Report: Viruses spreading on the double

News Two years ago, the big pest was the Love Bug; it was a mass mailer, but the payload wasn't that malicious. John Harrington, US marketing director for MessageLabs, said such serial development of worms has helped virus writers create more malicious...

[June 19, 2002, 9:35]

Pirate Bay closure sparks rise in P2P sites

News However, sites were also set up to scam file-sharers by offering content with a malicious payload. This was a true 'cloud computing' effort, as the masses stepped up to make this database of torrents (legal, infringed and malicious) available to...

[November 3, 2009, 14:35]

Slammer: The first 'Warhol' worm?

News If the worm had carried a malicious payload, had attacked a more widespread vulnerability, or had targeted a more popular service, the effects would likely have been far more severe," they wrote. The researchers noted that although the nature of...

[February 3, 2003, 16:12]

iPhone hack claimed by security researchers

News When this page was viewed, the payload forced the iPhone to make an outbound connection to a server that the researchers controlled. The researchers used an unmodified iPhone to surf to a malicious HTML document they had created.

[July 23, 2007, 16:22]

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