Rbot Virus Spies On Surfers
News The Rbot-GR virus follows a fairly traditional malware route of exploiting Microsoft security vulnerabilities and installing a Trojan horse on infected machines. What we do know if that there have been a few hundred different versions of the Rbot...
[August 25, 2004, 10:50]
Windows Worms Wreak Havoc
News Tokyo-based antivirus company Trend Micro blames the havoc on various worms, including the Zotob worm that hit the Internet over the weekend and new variants of the Rbot worm. It lists "Worm_Rbot.CEQ," an Rbot variant, as the possible cause of the...
[August 17, 2005, 10:15]
Trend Micro Aims At Corporate Spyware
News Genes said the company was also targeting the high volume of 'Rbot worms', which are frequently mutated by novice virus writers in a bid to get past antivirus software detection. Last week, Trend Micro released an update that was intended to combat...
[April 27, 2005, 14:10]
Free Zotob Removal Tool Offered
News The updated cleaning program checks for and removes infections from Zotob.A through Zotob.E as well as Bobax.O, Esbot.A, Rbot.MA, Rbot.MB and Rbot.MC, according to Microsoft. Microsoft on Wednesday made available a free software tool to help...
[August 18, 2005, 10:05]
Microsoft: Zombies Most Prevalent Windows Threat
News The top five threats identified by Microsoft's removal tool: Rbot, Sdbot, Parite, Gaobot and FURootkit. Parite is an aggressive file-infecting virus that first appeared in 2001, Microsoft said, and the FURootkit is often used to hide a backdoor...
[June 13, 2006, 9:20]
Italian Senate Hit By Hack Attack
News The hack was made possible due to an infection by a variant of the Rbot worm, a backdoor Trojan, which can surrender control of key systems to a hacker. The Italian Senate has been the subject of a hack attack by cybercriminals who uploaded images...
[November 24, 2004, 16:00]
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. Turkish authorities have linked one of the suspects in the Zotob worm case to...
[August 31, 2005, 10:15]
Worm Warfare Rages On
News New versions of pre-existing threats Rbot, Sdbot, CodBot and IRCBot also began wriggling their way into computers. The recent surge in worms could be part of an underground battle to hijack PCs for use in Net crimes, some security experts say - but...
[August 18, 2005, 9:00]
Trend Micro Snaps Up Anti-spyware Firm
News Last month, Trend Micro released an update that was intended to combat Rbot worms, but caused weekend problems for IT workers. Antivirus company Trend Micro spending an estimated $15m (£8m) to buy an anti-spyware company.
[May 10, 2005, 16:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The Rbot family of worms includes backdoor functionality. Wednesday 24/11/2004 Alarming news from Italy, where the Senate has been hit by -- oh, there's no polite way to say this -- hardcore homosexual pornography.
[November 26, 2004, 17:00]
Police Arrest Suspected Virus Writers
News They may have been involved in trying to release bot worms that exploited machines previously infected by Zotob and RBot, to take over compromised computers," said Cluley. The Metropolitan Police, acting in conjunction with Finnish law-enforcement...
[June 27, 2006, 16:45]
Zotob Worm Highlights Security Failings
News Many different versions of Zotob have being detected, and security experts are also concerned about the appearance of new variants of the Rbot worm. It was the speed of the Zotob worm's attack that took businesses by surprise this week rather than...
[August 17, 2005, 15:10]
Windows 2000 Users Face Multiple Attacks
News The vulnerability has also been leapt on by the virus writers who have launched the recent SDBot, Rbot and the Zotob virus families which has been causing pain for users around the world in the past 24 hours.
[August 17, 2005, 15:45]
Zotob Suspects Linked To Underground Network
News Users could request and share malicious code such as the Zotob, Rbot and SDbot viruses. 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.
[August 30, 2005, 16:55]
