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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]
WM97/Titch-L
White Papers WM97/Titch-L is a member of the WM97/Titch family which has no malicious payload. It creates the non-viral file C:\arbind2000.tmp, which it uses during replication. This file will normally be deleted by the virus after use.
[May 5, 2004, 0:00]
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 6, 2007, 23:00]
'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]
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]
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]
Inbox Menace - Bugbear
News This is a widely distributed worm with a dangerous payload. Despite the fact that most systems should be fully protected by a patch or antivirus software, Bugbear has quickly surpassed Klez, SirCam, and all other recent malicious attacks on...
[October 10, 2002, 13:01]
'Prisoner Of Azkaban' Stokes Worm Infections
News The P variant has been particularly successful, though, thanks to engineering that disguises the worm's payload as one of dozens of potentially tempting files, from Harry Potter content to X-rated photos of Britney Spears.
[June 4, 2004, 8:40]
Explorer Flaw Creates 'critical' Worm-hole
News It will require an effective payload to turn it into something more useful. When a Web page or HTML file containing the malicious script is viewed by Internet Explorer, versions 5 and 6, the buffer is overrun and the browser crashes.
[June 26, 2003, 9:07]
