BadtransII Is Out There: Additional Text (Kaspersky)
White Papers The virus sends e-mail messages with infected files attached, as well as installs a spying Trojan component to steal information from infected systems. The worm consists of two main components, the Worm and Trojan.
[April 17, 2004, 1:04]
Three-stage Bagle Variants Alarm Experts
News As well as mailing itself on, the mass-mailer downloads a Trojan called Win32.Fantibag to the infected machine, which is designed to block antivirus software updates. The final part of the triumvirate is a second Trojan, called Win32.Mitglieder...
[June 2, 2005, 12:10]
Microsoft Study Finds Trojans Are Biggest Threat
News Trojan downloaders accounted for more than 30 percent of that. More than 96 percent of the computers cleaned in this category were attributed to two Trojan families: Win32/Zlob and Win32/Renos, the report said.
[November 4, 2008, 6:30]
BadtransII Reaches Global Epidemic Proportions (Kaspersky)
White Papers The virus sends e-mail messages with infected files attached, as well as installs a spying Trojan component to steal information from infected systems. Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, reports about the global...
[April 20, 2004, 1:04]
Trojan Exploits Unpatched IE Flaw
News Malicious software that exploits the security flaw to download a Trojan horse to vulnerable computers has been found on the Internet, according to Microsoft. The security bug, exploited by the Trojan downloader, was originally reported in May.
[December 1, 2005, 7:50]
Windows Component Deleted By CA Antivirus
News The cause of the confusion seems to be Lsass.exe being mistaken for the Trojan Win32/Lassrv.B. Some Windows 2003 users have been experiencing problems with the operating system recently after antivirus software from CA wrongly detected part of the...
[September 4, 2006, 15:50]
TomTom Ships Malware On Sat-nav
News Winder found that the two pieces of malware are win32.Perlovga.A Trojan and TR/Drop.Small.qp, and are resident on the sat-nav hard drive within the copy.exe and host.exe files. Satellite navigation company TomTom has admitted that it has shipped...
[January 29, 2007, 12:49]
Malware Latches Onto Windows Updates
News A Trojan, which began circulating in March via spammed email, used an "interesting" technique to download malicious files, said the report. Once infected, the Trojan utilises BITS to download additional malware.
[May 15, 2007, 9:37]
'Happy New Year' Worm Fizzles Out
News Sophos has called the worm Dref V, but it is also known as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Tibs.jy. Security vendors have warned that the "Happy New Year" worm could catch employees returning from New Year's celebrations unawares, but believe the threat...
[January 2, 2007, 11:36]
Cybercriminals Up Ante With Phishing And Darkmail
News BlackSpider's monthly statistical analysis also revealed the new viruses released in July included six variants of the Win32.small Trojan downloader. The number of phishing emails sent to UK businesses increased by 45 percent in July, according to...
[August 2, 2005, 12:20]
Trojan Horses Targeting Sony DRM Rootkit Found
News Two Trojan horses with very similar characteristics that exploit Sony's DRM software to avoid detection were found on Thursday. The Stinx-E Trojan horse, found by antivirus vendor Sophos, has been sent out in spam and uses filenames such as Article...
[November 10, 2005, 16:25]
Valentine's Day Brings Spam And Scams, Warns FBI
Blog However, clicking on the link downloads a malicious file -- not the Storm worm this time, but a Trojan Kaspersky calls "Win32.Tibs. It's a perennial security story -- spammers, scammers, and those seeking to promulgate malware will adjust campaigns...
[February 14, 2008, 10:50]
Botnets Exploit Microsoft RPC Flaw
News But experts predicted any exploitation will be bundled within an existing Trojan horse or botnet package because that's where criminals can make the most money from the malware code. On Monday, several antivirus vendors reported a new round of...
[November 4, 2008, 10:06]
Fake Microsoft Security Email Hides Malware
News Attackers are apparently taking advantage of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday to send legitimate-looking mailings to Microsoft customers that include a Trojan virus called Trojan.Backdoor.Haxdoor that could allow attackers to execute files and steal...
[October 15, 2008, 8:36]
New Bugbear Worm Races Up Virus Charts
News More dangerously, the virus installs a keylogger that records what the user types -- a method of capturing passwords -- and a Trojan horse backdoor, communicating on port 1080, which allows an attacker to take control of the system.
[June 5, 2003, 10:06]
