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Mobile Malware Gets Smarter
News These Trojans require user acceptance for each message and are only able to send messages within Russia, according to F-Secure. Viver uses an approach that was pioneered by the RedBrowser and Wesber Trojans that first appeared last year, according...
[May 22, 2007, 15:04]
'Swiss Army Knife' Virus Appears In A Weekend
News The worm combines multiple attack techniques in an innovative way: spamming, social engineering, virus infection and Trojans. According to antivirus company F-Secure, the virus sends out hundreds of emails from an infected machine.
[November 9, 2004, 13:53]
Massive Demand For Unauthorised Windows Patch
News To minimise risk from these Trojans, systems administrators have been advised by F-Secure to block user access to the following: HTTP access to playtimepiano[dot]home[dot]comcast[dot]net TFTP (ie. According to antivirus firm F-Secure, demand for...
[January 4, 2006, 16:15]
'Rogue' Cleaning Tool Targets Mac Users
News We are really trying to make a good software [sic], and you won't find any viruses/spyware/Trojans/malware in MacSweeper (test it yourself, if you don't believe me, you can use any type of firewalls, dissemblers, or other tools) [sic].
[January 16, 2008, 12:43]
Netsky Author Signs Out With Final Variant
News He suspects that Bagle and MyDoom are written if not by the same person, then by the same team of coders: "This family of Trojans have been used by spammers for several months. Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research at Finnish company F...
[March 9, 2004, 12:25]
Virus With SOCKS Appeal Targets Corporate PCs
News On the F-Secure blog, Jarkko Turkulainen, the Finnish antivirus company's binary virus researcher, said the latest Bagle no longer tries to "download Mitglieder trojans for opening up spam proxies on infected computers", instead the malware "can...
[August 8, 2005, 14:40]
Mac OS X With 100 Bugs: Still Safer Than Windows?
News A lot of things like Trojans and email worms [affect the Mac] the same as they would in the PC world. There are no viruses really for OS X — there have been a few — but, from that point of view, the likelihood of you getting hit on an Apple is...
[July 11, 2007, 16:30]
Researchers: Cyberattacks Outstripping Defences
News Like Trojans, these codes are then used to steal valuable data, such as bank account numbers and passwords, he added. Banking Trojans", for instance, are the latest iteration of malicious software capable of stealing data even from most careful of...
[September 7, 2007, 9:51]
Symbian Trojan Concerns Mount
News While the software appears to be safe to share or use, the Trojans actually contain malicious software that crashes many critical mobile phone system components. Putting together this many Trojans would be very time-consuming and shows a...
[April 21, 2005, 9:20]
Video: Hackers Tailor Malware To Individual Businesses
News But that's not the end of organisations' security headaches, as F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen reveals further problems with mobile devices and online-banking Trojans. High-profile businesses now face the evolution of traditional malware attacks, as...
[April 25, 2007, 15:04]
Symbian's Security Problems Worsen
News The company suggested that the way to avoid Fontal.A and other Trojans is to download files only from known or trusted sources. A Trojan horse has been created that causes smartphones to crash, security software maker F-Secure has warned.
[April 7, 2005, 10:20]
F-Secure Combines Antivirus And Firewall
News As hackers start adopting more virus-like techniques -- using Trojans, back doors -- and viruses use more hacker-like techniques -- we see that the two are not that disparate and require a combined solution," he said.
[September 4, 2003, 8:29]
Experts Warn Of JPEG-based Virus Attack
News Apparently they tried to use these JPEGs to download Trojans to vulnerable computers, but the download sites should be down by now. The code, which Easynews called a virus, does not have any mechanism to spread, antivirus-software company F-Secure...
[September 29, 2004, 8:55]
Latest Bagle Causes Concern
News For the Trojans to work, a certain amount of social engineering is required as the emails contain a ZIP-file attachment which must be opened to display the programs "doc_01.exe" or "prs_03.exe", which must also be run manually to infect a computer.
[March 1, 2005, 12:20]
Stealth Virus Warning Sounded Again
News Kaspersky said that to fight this new tactic antivirus companies have to be more thorough by scouring Web pages and email attachments for new and obscure pieces of malware - to ensure as few Trojans as possible get through to users.
[May 25, 2005, 11:15]
Infamous Russian ISP Behind Bank Of India Hack
News The Trojans used in this case were designed to steal passwords from PCs and upload Trojan proxies in aide of developing a botnet. Patrik Runald, senior security specialist at F-Secure, said: "No one knows who the RBN is.
[September 4, 2007, 9:10]
Talk Talk Talks Up Internet Security
News But both firms said on Thursday ISPs should also be doing more to protect customers from the threat of viruses, Trojans and worms at the network level. ISPs should be doing more to ensure customers are not sent malware, according to Talk Talk and F...
[September 23, 2005, 16:05]
Trojans From China Attacking UK
News Yesterday MessageLabs said it had intercepted 17 new Trojans that appeared to be the sort NISCC had warned of. When contacted, antivirus companies Computer Associates, F-Secure, Kaspersky Labs and Sophos refused to say where the Trojan attacks...
[June 30, 2005, 15:55]
Symbian Threats Multiply
News Sendtool drops a tool that can be used to send malicious programs, such as other Trojans, to other Bluetooth-enabled devices. F-Secure and McAfee are among the other vendors of antivirus products for mobile phones.
[January 23, 2006, 9:00]
Microsoft's Antivirus Fails Another Test
News It scored a 91 percent success rate for detecting Windows viruses, macros, worms and scripts, 79.6 percent for detecting backdoors, Trojans and other malware, and 82.4 percent for its overall detection rates.
[March 7, 2007, 15:18]
