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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 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 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 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 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 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 '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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
News Schmooze: Tech economy suffers as Bill Gates heads for fantasyland
News SirCam amused security watchers all week, not for its virulence, which wasn't great, but for its amusing feature of emailing random documents to everyone in your address book. In case you were under any illusions that the global economy was going...
[July 27, 2001, 17:40]
British trojan launches weekend attack
News A new variant of a mass-mailing Internet worm has been spreading rapidly over the weekend and is reported to be reaching the epidemic levels of SirCam, according to British antivirus companies. The "B" variant of the W32/Badtrans@MM virus has been...
[November 26, 2001, 11:38]
