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Mytob worm turns to phishing
News IT security experts warned on Wednesday that the creators of the latest variants of the Mytob worm have borrowed tricks from phishers to infect more computer users. Until now, the Mytob worm was propagated as email attachments.
[June 9, 2005, 16:00]
Mytob worm turns to phishing
Talkback Are there any samples of the text of this email (Mytob Phishing scam) that I can show my users? A lot of them do better with visual as opposed to just telling them something.
[June 9, 2005, 19:29]
Bagle and Mytob evolve again
News A bunch of new variants of the Bagle virus and Mytob worm are spreading, but they won't pose a major threat if people take the usual precautions, security companies say. Mytob, like Bagle, is generating new offspring.
[June 1, 2005, 9:05]
Mytob worm turns to phishing
Talkback TECHNOLOGICAL MENACE In the electronic era, the offenders have attained an expertise by which they can create any nuisance and damage. The computerised era have to consider these by products of the use of information technology.
[June 11, 2005, 15:04]
Mytob worm turns to phishing
Talkback A sample of the text of this email can be found on the Sophos website: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/mytob2.html
[June 10, 2005, 12:28]
Bagle and Mytob evolve again
Talkback There seem to be a lot of misconception in the industry that Linux is virus free. This gets even more highlighted due to the bad press surrounding MS Windows. I use both Linux (Fedora) & Windows and I would say Windows gets large chunk of viruses...
[June 2, 2005, 12:11]
Bagle and Mytob evolve again
Talkback Perhaps it's just sloppy editing but your article neglects to point out that this, like all viruses etc, is a Microsoft-only problem. Users of modern OS's like Linux, OS X are not affected other than by the volume of crap passed on by their legacy...
[June 1, 2005, 17:19]
Bagle and Mytob evolve again
Talkback Perhaps it's just sloppy editing but your article neglects to point out that this, like all viruses etc, is a Microsoft-only problem. Users of modern OS's like Linux, OS X are not affected other than by the volume of crap passed on by their legacy...
[June 1, 2005, 16:25]
Bagle and Mytob evolve again
Talkback The Wintel treadmill is replaced by the A-V+Windows treadmill. Same Windows exploits, small variation on A-V software. These are *variants* not new malware. These are not new problems. Why do the customers of MS put up with broken designs?
[June 1, 2005, 13:33]
Zotob suspects linked to underground network
News One of the virus writers suspected of creating the Zotob and Mytob worms has been linked to a notorious network of malware creators called 0x90-team. Two men were arrested at the end of last week on suspicion of authoring both the Mytob and Zotob...
[August 30, 2005, 16:55]
New mass-mailer on the march
News With eight new variants surfacing in the last week alone, and over a dozen reported since the beginning of March, the Mytob mass-mailing worm appears to be evolving rapidly. On Monday, security software maker Symantec reported two new versions of...
[March 30, 2005, 9:15]
Malware variant trend reflects police action
News Carole Theriault, a security consultant at security software firm Sophos, believes that the explosion in the number of variants of the Mytob worm and Bagle virus could be due to virus writers taking a lower profile and enlisting script kiddies to...
[June 1, 2005, 15:50]
Netsky number one again
News Despite the fact that Netsky.P has increased its share of the most reported viruses according to antivirus firm Sophos, up from 14 percent in July, the Mytob family of worms remains a threat to PC users everywhere, taking up seven out of 10 chart...
[September 2, 2005, 10:20]
Two arrested over Zotob worm
News Bresson said that Essebar, who went by the nickname "Diabl0", and Ekici, known as "Coder", are suspected of creating both the Mytob and Zotob worms. Zotob included some of the code used in Mytob, an email worm that first started spreading in March.
[August 30, 2005, 8:50]
London hospital systems still disrupted by virus
News The virus has been identified as Mytob, the spokesman said. According to antivirus vendor McAfee, W32/Mytob.gen@mm — a mass-mailing worm — was first identified in February 2005 and is categorised as a low risk.
[November 21, 2008, 15:24]
After two years, Netsky-P is still worst virus
News Netsky-P was followed by Mytob-AS, which accounted for 15.8 percent of malicious software reports, while Bagle-Zip accounted for 8 percent of reports, according to Sophos. If you use the Internet and don't have proper security measures in place...
[September 4, 2006, 9:20]
Credit card fraud ring implicated in Zotob affair
News Ekici along with Farid Essebar, an 18-year-old Moroccan national born in Russia, are believed to be responsible for Zotob and the earlier Mytob and Rbot worms. The suspected link to a credit card fraud ring expands the possible financial motivation...
[August 31, 2005, 10:15]
Viruses, worms, and Trojans return with a vengeance
News Mytob Mytob is a dangerous new piece of malware that uses MyDoom exploit code. In addition, Mytob shows signs that its creators are taking caution to spread it carefully in order to avoid media attention.
[June 9, 2005, 11:25]
Cybercriminals up ante with phishing and darkmail
News The top five in July in descending order were: W32.Netsky.P, Phish-BankFraud.eml.b, W32.Mytob.DF, W32.Mytob.EE and W32.Mytob.ED. The number of phishing emails sent to UK businesses increased by 45 percent in July, according to the latest figures...
[August 2, 2005, 12:20]
and don't forget to manage the vulnerabilities.....
Talkback I discovered that W32.Mytob.mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses it own SMTP engine to send an email to addresses that it gathers from the Windows Address Book on the compromised computer. I wondered how a virus could cause such a major issue.
[November 19, 2008, 14:36]
