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SirCam Worm Puts Secrets At Risk
News The SirCam worm continued to gain momentum Monday, carrying with it the potential not only to slow corporate email servers but also to send along company secrets. An added twist with SirCam is that the worm sends a random file from the infected...
[July 24, 2001, 8:46]
SirCam Worm Still A Serious Threat
News Almost seven weeks after it started spreading, the SirCam worm is still topping the watch lists of almost every antivirus company. The worm has no competition for the top slot on the company's all-time list of commonly intercepted attachments: At...
[September 5, 2001, 13:48]
SirCam Worm Settles In For The Long Haul
News Like a summer cold that just won't go away, the SirCam email worm lingers on, sending out the contents of infected hard drives for all the world to see. The SirCam worm spreads by emailing copies of itself to everyone in the infected computer's...
[August 3, 2001, 9:38]
SirCam Worm Snatches FBI Documents
News A researcher at the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center -- the bureau's cyberprotection unit -- allowed the rapidly spreading SirCam worm to send private FBI documents from a bureau computer to outsiders, according to an FBI statement...
[July 26, 2001, 9:23]
SirCam Worm 'high Risk' But Not An Epidemic
News The SirCam worm, which surfaced last week, spreads by emailing copies of itself to everyone in the infected computer's Windows address book. But SirCam can also perform several destructive acts based on a combination of arcane PC settings and chance.
[July 25, 2001, 11:06]
SirCam To Target Europe In New Attack
News The highly destructive SirCam worm has been programmed to return on its three-month birthday, and Europe will be a prime target for the attacks. But Symantec is certain that European novice end-users should brace themselves for a return of the...
[October 16, 2001, 11:58]
SirCam Tops Virus Charts For July
News Hyped-up warnings about the return of the self-propagating Code Red worm have overshadowed reports of the SirCam virus, which was by far the most prolific virus throughout July. The SirCam worm, which surfaced at the beginning of the month, spreads...
[August 2, 2001, 17:42]
New Viruses On The Attack
News SirCam worm still a serious threat Wednesday 5th September Underestimating the SirCam worm could prove very costly, experts warn as the number of cases continues to rise Tuesday 4th September The Apost worm, which arrives with a message asking...
[September 5, 2001, 16:47]
Golden-oldie Worms Top The Hit List
News Antivirus company Trend Micro's virus-tracking center placed SirCam at number three, right after Nimda and a variant of that six-month-old worm. Data furnished by e-mail service provider MessageLabs placed the SirCam virus, which hit the Internet...
[April 2, 2002, 11:05]
2001: The Year Of The Virus
News The most destructive of these is SirCam -- a network-aware worm which is still spreading at a fast rate. In July, SirCam was responsible for leaking corporate documents, password files and, in one case, official FBI documents.
[December 26, 2001, 6:31]
Deadlier Klez Worm On The Prowl
News Based on how many instances of each worm and virus the company has intercepted in the past 24 hours, UK-headquartered mail service provider MessageLabs ranks Klez.e fourth on its top 10 list, behind Sircam, BadTrans and Magistr -- old worms that...
[February 12, 2002, 10:01]
Nimda Worm Hits Banks
News Nimda only distributes a payload -- it is not like SirCam, which additionally distributes random files," said Rogers. The number of emails with Nimda's README/EXE attachement seems to have dwindled, with email virus scanning firm Messagelabs only...
[September 20, 2001, 18:15]
Report: Viruses Spreading On The Double
News With SirCam and Klez, they're extremely malicious -- they root around in your hard drive; they send out sensitive documents. SirCam, which surfaced last year, was the second most active pest, responsible for 600,000 infections.
[June 19, 2002, 9:35]
SirCam Slowing, But Threat Lingers
News Although the weekend saw a small drop in the rate of infection, the number of copies of SirCam caught daily by MessageLabs continued to grow early this week, topping 10,000 messages on both Tuesday and Wednesday.
[July 27, 2001, 9:30]
Home PC Users Wake Up To Need For Firewalls
News Such concerns may be the reason home PC users should load personal firewalls onto their computers, but the spread of the Code Red worm and the SirCam e-mail virus are the reason for an upswing in firewall sales this summer, according to Amazon.com.
[August 29, 2001, 8:59]
Klez Overtakes SirCam In Virus Stakes
News Klez.h appears to be overtaking SirCam as the most virulent computer virus to date. According to antivirus outsourcing firm Messagelabs, which scans emails for corporate clients, Klez.h overtook SirCam on Sunday and continues to spread, with the...
[May 28, 2002, 12:55]
News Schmooze: Code Red Fails To Impress Jaded Users
News But there's always that wacky SirCam worm, which has kept up its amusing antics despite public attention being directed elsewhere. While originally expected to at least shut down the Internet, if not actually obliterate the planet Earth, the Code...
[August 3, 2001, 17:29]
New Email Worm Attacks Outlook
News We've had several reports of Apost over the last few days, but to be honest it's a lot smaller than Magistr or SirCam," said Graham Cluely, senior technology consultant at anti-virus company Sophos. After six months we are still getting reports of...
[September 4, 2001, 16:30]
Klez Worms Its Way To The Top Of The Virus Charts
News The latest fast-spreading versions of the Klez worm have so far infected more than 7 percent of PCs worldwide, surpassing totals chalked up by previous threats such as SirCam and Nimda, according to a new survey by an antivirus company.
[April 30, 2002, 8:35]
Klez Virus Passes Confidential Info
News The SirCam worm, which is still spreading among computers on the Internet, also attached itself to documents and forwarded on the infected files to potential victims. The latest variant of the Klez worm sometimes chooses to hitch a ride on...
[April 22, 2002, 10:16]
