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Sars virus exploited by worm writers
News Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos Anti-Virus, said: "The worm has been deliberately coded to exploit the public's genuine concern about Sars, and is just a further demonstration of the ways that virus writers attempt to use...
[April 23, 2003, 15:19]
'Thursday' virus upgraded to 'high risk' - part 2
News In both instances, federal investigators in the US got involved and virus writers became leery of running afoul of the Feds, said Nachenberg. Virus writers had a new start -- a new launch mechanism in macro commands and a great way to spread their...
[September 3, 1999, 9:05]
Time to catch the virus copycats
News While a virus writer can argue that they didn't expect their progeny to spread widely, copycat writers are actually aiming at creating the next Internet apocalypse. Instead of being scared, copycat writers are flagrantly flaunting their ability to...
[May 22, 2000, 9:50]
MSN Messenger used for viral gang warfare
News Just weeks after Microsoft forced millions of MSN Messenger users to update their client software in order to stop the spread of a worm, the popular instant messenger service is once more being exploited by virus writers.
[March 8, 2005, 8:30]
Bin Laden video spreads a worm for 'The Hobbit'
News Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos said hackers and virus writers will try all kinds of tricks to entice people into running their malicious code. Malware writers recently targeted Yahoo by sending users an e-mail asking them to...
[November 5, 2004, 11:43]
Virus writers latch onto war theme
News Virus writers have taken advantage of the onset of war to release an email supposedly offering a variety of war-themed attachments -- ranging from secret US spy pictures of Iraq to screensavers mocking US President George Bush.
[March 20, 2003, 8:51]
Gartner advises companies to scrap Microsoft IIS
News Although these Web servers have required some security patches, they have much better security records than IIS and are not under active attack by the vast number of virus and worm writers," the report says.
[September 25, 2001, 12:30]
Viruses can be tamed - by upgrading users' brains
News Ben Nagy, senior security engineer at eEye, the company responsible for discovering the Windows vulnerability exploited by the Sasser worm, agrees that virus and worm writers are much cleverer than they were four years ago: "Four years ago, your...
[May 4, 2004, 17:55]
Virus bounty 'will change nothing'
News Some security experts believe the bounty could disrupt the relationships between virus writers, effectively shutting down the loose online circles where authors meet and exchange code. It will make the typical virus writers -- 13- to 25-year-olds...
[November 6, 2003, 8:10]
Security contractors urged to take out personal indemnity insurance
News The security consultant is not committing the crime -- it is squarely down to the hackers, virus writers and organised criminals. Instead, he said more resources should be ploughed into catching malware writers who are actively seeking out and...
[June 2, 2004, 15:30]
Hacker exploits make PC worms more deadly
News One year ago email worms were the big threat, as they spread quickly and far -- but now a lot more virus writers will be looking at the hacker worm. Nimda and Code Red have eliminated the need for human intervention, by virus writers using what...
[October 18, 2001, 12:20]
Can Microsoft's virus bounty fight organised crime?
News Microsoft's $5m Reward Program may help catch script kiddies, such as the German teenager suspected of authoring a variant of the Sasser worm, but it is unlikely to have any effect on virus writers working for organised crime syndicates, say...
[May 10, 2004, 17:30]
MS issues Outlook security patch
News Ever since the Melissa virus clogged email servers in March 1999, and continuing on with the "ILOVEYOU" worm in early May, companies and individuals running Microsoft's Outlook mail client have been prime targets for virus writers.
[June 9, 2000, 8:28]
Virus writers get stealthy
News Hyppönen said that no one has seen a really hard-hitting worm since May last year and believes this is because virus writers have changed their approach. According to F-Secure, virus writers are putting more time into making their viruses stealthy...
[March 18, 2005, 14:20]
Netsky tops 2004 virus charts
News Sophos expects the number of new viruses to remain at a similar level next year, but the intent of virus writers is expected to continue to shift to one of financial gain, rather than mere bragging rights, Cluley said.
[December 9, 2004, 14:10]
Report: Viruses spreading on the double
News Klez, which started off as a fairly innocuous mass-mailing worm, mutated into nastier versions as virus writers tried to improve on the original code, resulting in the pandemic Klez.h variant. John Harrington, US marketing director for MessageLabs...
[June 19, 2002, 9:35]
Microsoft next target of MyDoom
News But the situation presented a new and possibly dangerous trend of virus writers using one infection to prime the pump for others, Weafer said. In many cases, these boxes are for hire -- they're essentially owned by the virus writers and rented out...
[July 28, 2004, 8:30]
Virus writers exchange coded insults
News To get their messages across, the worm writers are constantly changing their code to ensure they keep one step ahead of the antivirus companies. Like any community, the virus writers often are at war with each other -- rather like politicians...
[March 3, 2004, 12:30]
Spying worms likely to proliferate
News James Kay, the chief technology officer of Blackspider, said on Friday that vulnerability assessment worms are quite rare at the moment, but their number will probably increase as virus writers focus their attacks more carefully and try to avoid...
[June 10, 2005, 16:10]
SCO offers reward for MyDoom author
News Microsoft announced in early November that the company had created a $5m fund to reward those who help convict specific virus writers. If Microsoft is serious about their efforts to capture virus writers, they will definitely put out a bounty on...
[January 28, 2004, 7:35]
