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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]
