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Trojan Attack Hits Networks Worldwide
News Email security company MessageLabs said it has blocked 54,000 copies of new Downloader Trojans since 02:00(BST) on Thursday. MessageLabs said in a statement both Trojans have the same email characteristics and rated the outbreak level as "high".
[July 7, 2005, 17:50]
UK Companies In 'blissful Ignorance' Over Spyware Threat
News UK companies are finally wising up to the importance of deploying software patches and keeping their antivirus signatures up to date, but the increasing threats from Trojans and spyware have still not sunk in, according to a survey conducted by...
[July 15, 2004, 15:15]
Phishing Overtakes Viruses And Trojans
News Security mail services vendor MessageLabs reported on Monday that in January 2007, one in 93.3 (1.07 percent) emails comprised some form of phishing attack. This includes the recent Storm Worm and Warezov attacks, according to MessageLabs.
[January 30, 2007, 13:12]
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. But experts at MessageLabs said it would be inaccurate to conclude Chinese hackers are responsible for the Trojan horse attacks as the...
[June 30, 2005, 15:55]
Latest Trojans Raid Bank Accounts
News But in response to the increased adoption of stronger authentication, cybercriminals are changing their tactics, according to Alex Shipp, a senior antivirus technologist at MessageLabs. The bank-stealing Trojans are programmed to work with specific...
[February 20, 2006, 8:35]
Another Trojan On The Attack
News Email security services provider MessageLabs said early indications were the new virus was similar to previous attacks, whereby criminals have used Trojans to install key loggers and password stealers.
[June 8, 2004, 9:15]
Trojan Exploits Outlook Express
News British e-mail provider MessageLabs.com has reported seeing a number of recent Trojan attacks exploiting a quirk in Outlook Express. MessageLabs reports finding this vulnerability in Outlook Express versions 6.00.2800.1106 and 6.00.26.0000 but says...
[February 20, 2003, 11:13]
Spammers Take Aim At HR Departments
News Human resources departments and recruitment agencies are being increasingly targeted by spammers, antivirus vendor MessageLabs said on Tuesday. Targeted Trojan attacks have more chance of success against human resources and recruitment because they...
[April 4, 2006, 17:25]
Spammers Use Your Cat's Name To Sell You Viagra
News Research by email security firm MessageLabs has revealed that spammers are targeting companies and individuals with unsolicited messages that have subject lines containing names, familiar words or phrases that have been stolen from the victim's...
[June 22, 2004, 16:45]
Spammers 'tricking ISPs' Into Sending Junk Mail
News Anti-spam company MessageLabs confirmed Linford's findings. This ups the ante in the need for filters," said Mark Sunner, chief technology officer for MessageLabs. ISPs have so much spam -- they are too understaffed to call people up and tell them...
[February 2, 2005, 16:05]
'Survivor' Site Contains Malicious Code
News At this stage antivirus vendors that ZDNet Australia has approached have not revealed what the payload is, but miscreants have recently contrived similar forms of attack into maliciously designed HTML emails MessageLabs detected this month.
[May 13, 2004, 10:35]
It's Official: Spammers Are Hijacking ISPs
News According to research published by MessageLabs on Friday, the proportion of spam coming directly from networks of infected machines has decreased from 79 percent to 59 percent, while overall spam levels have climbed.
[March 4, 2005, 12:50]
Spammers Conscript Home PCs To Do Dirty Work
News Nearly 70 percent of spam messages appear to come from servers classified as open relays, according to MessageLabs. The company, MessageLabs, operates servers that block spam and viruses for its clients.
[June 27, 2003, 13:03]
Antivirus Firms Battle 'unique Malware'
News While it doesn't use custom signatures, MessageLabs also deploys intelligent tools to deal with unknown codes, according to Tom Chan, enterprise and partner services manager in Asia-Pacific. Chan said that MessageLabs sifts through more than a...
[November 24, 2006, 7:13]
Spammers Use 'opt-out' To Install Trojan
News Business email security provider MessageLabs has issued a warning to Internet users not click on the "opt-out" link on spam emails, as the company said it had discovered yesterday a number of messages using this function to open a spam...
[October 6, 2004, 9:55]
'Clean Up This Internet Effluent Now'
News E-mail security provider Messagelabs is taking the fight against spam and viruses elsewhere by offering proactive managed services that stop spam and virus threats at the Internet level, before they reach corporate networks and end users.
[May 7, 2004, 16:10]
Video: The Real Security Threats Facing Businesses
News Mark Sunner, chief security analyst at MessageLabs, talks exclusively to ZDNet UK about the security challenges facing UK businesses in 2007. Next-generation bots, new scales of Trojans and the interweaving of social engineering all promise to...
[April 25, 2007, 13:39]
Internet Guru Warns Of Botnet Pandemic
News According to Mark Sunner, chief security analyst at MessageLabs, Cerf's words of warning are far from scaremongering and the picture is at least as serious as Cerf paints it. Cerf predicted that a quarter of all PCs currently connected to the...
[January 29, 2007, 8:39]
Sobig Blamed For Fourfold Rise In Spam
News According to an end-of-year report published by email-outsourcing firm MessageLabs on Monday, the Sobig.F virus is to blame for a large proportion of the increase. Mark Sunner, chief technology officer at MessageLabs, said that a convergence of...
[December 9, 2003, 9:40]
Vulnerability Auctions Compromising Security
News At a breakfast briefing organised by email security firm MessageLabs on Wednesday, Graham Ingram, general manager of the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT), said that a market where vulnerabilities in software are traded is...
[July 19, 2006, 16:35]
