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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. When an infected computer starts up today, there is a 5 percent chance that SirCam will start to delete...
[October 16, 2001, 11:58]
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. Market analyst Computer Economics estimates that by the end of August, SirCam had infected 2.3 million computers and...
[September 5, 2001, 13:48]
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. Anti-virus company Central Command's "Dirty Dozen" report confirms...
[August 2, 2001, 17:42]
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. Although we have seen significant numbers of this virus in the US, we believe that...
[July 24, 2001, 8:46]
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. An added twist with SirCam is that it sends a randomly chosen file from 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]
Information Security: Code Red, Code Red II, And SirCam Attacks Highlight Need For Proactive Measures
White Papers The most notable, of course, is Code Red but potentially more damaging are Code Red II and SirCam. The paper discusses the makeup and potential threat that each of the viruses, mentioned in the report, poses.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
SirCam Worm 'high Risk' But Not An Epidemic
News An added twist with SirCam is that it sends a randomly chosen file from the infected computer's hard drive, potentially sending confidential business data or embarrassing personal information along with itself.
[July 25, 2001, 11:06]
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]
The Mistakes That Made Us Vulnerable To The W32/SirCam@mm Virus
White Papers Computer security around our office used to be pretty lax. But with the threat of systems and data compromise we realized that we needed to have more than just an old 486 running Linux acting as a firewall and a few copies of Dr.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
SirCam Virus Information & Removal Details
White Papers This virus will search through your personal documents. It will create infected email attachments from them. The virus will then email these infected attachments to people in your address book as well as email addresses it finds in cached browser...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A Virus And A Worm: Lessons Learned From SirCam And Code Red In A University Environment
White Papers Viruses and worms are two types of malware that we heard a lot from in the summer of 2001. Two specimens, one from each of these forms of malware, were released a few days apart in July 2001, keeping security personnel busy and generating a lot of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
2001: The Year Of The Virus
News In July, SirCam was responsible for leaking corporate documents, password files and, in one case, official FBI documents. The most destructive of these is SirCam -- a network-aware worm which is still spreading at a fast rate.
[December 26, 2001, 6:31]
Golden-oldie Worms Top The Hit List
News Data furnished by e-mail service provider MessageLabs placed the SirCam virus, which hit the Internet last August, at the top of its list of hostile attachments. Antivirus company Trend Micro's virus-tracking center placed SirCam at number three...
[April 2, 2002, 11:05]
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]
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]
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]
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]
