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  • Valentine’s lures lead to infection

    Predicted spate of romance hooks under way. After numerous security watchers predicted a barrage of phishing and malware attacks associated with Valentine’s Day this week, the first waves of such attacks have been seen, with the latest featuring pictures of cute puppies being used to soften defences and lead victims to infectious trojans. Spammed emails…

  • Google shows off in-house browser beta

    Open-source ‘Chrome’ promises security as well as efficiency. Ever-expanding web giant Google has released an early version of its own browser, developed in house but under open-source principles, with a number of built-in security systems and techniques supplementing new ideas for speed and efficiency. The browser, dubbed ‘ Chrome ‘, will include alerts from Google…

  • Malware writing teacher revives old rows

    College instructor claims to be fighting industry monopoly. As announced to much controversy last year, a course in computer security at Sonoma State University, California, is teaching students to write their own viruses, keyloggers, spambots and other malicious software. According to a high-profile piece in Newsweek magazine, the teacher of the course, Dr George Ledin,…

  • Trojan-to-worm automation tool spotted

    GUI gizmo adds extra spreading menace to any malware. Researchers at Panda have discovered a simple and colourful graphical application designed to add basic worm techniques to trojans, giving any piece of malicious code the ability to spread itself across networks. The tool, dubbed ‘Constructor/wormer’ by Panda , also allows a number of advanced options…

  • Security experts gather in Europe

    Anti-malware insights pooled at AMTSO, CARO and EICAR meetings. Many of the world’s leading anti-malware and security experts came together in the past week, at a string of meetings and conferences being held in Europe. Global bodies the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organisation (AMTSO) and the Computer Anti-Virus Researchers’ Organization (CARO), and the pan-European experts group…

  • China-Tibet row spills over into malware attacks

    Both sides of debate targeted to spread malicious code. With the political row over China’s involvement in Tibet continuing to make the headlines, cybercriminals have been as quick as ever to exploit the public interest in the topic, using the story as a hook for several malware attacks. The first was as wave of SQL-based…

  • IE8 to include malware filtering

    New features list includes upgrade to security provision. The next version of Microsoft ‘s Internet Explorer web browser, IE8 , could include malware detection as standard, in an improvement to the current phishing filter provided in IE7 . Details of a range of new additions to the browser accompanied the recent beta of IE8 ,…

  • Showy malware pushes rogue anti-malware product

    MonaRonaDona trojan leads searchers to remover scam. An infection which advertises its presence using the name ‘MonaRonaDona’ is leading victims to search for a cure – and many of them are finding a targeted rogue anti-malware application widely promoted on the web as a dedicated fix for the problem. In stark contrast to the stealth…

  • Malware going local

    Report sees trend toward greater localisation of threats. McAfee ‘s latest Sage report focuses on increased localisation in malware, with spam, phishing and malcode all showing great improvements in their use of local languages and targeting of regional resources and computing methods. The report carries stories from various regions around the globe, detailing the popularity…

  • Storm Valentines run under way

    Seasonal spam and malware barrage gets going. The expected run of ‘Storm’ spams, pushing links to their latest line of malware disguised as Valentine’s messages, has begun, with many reports of spams appearing all over the world. The Storm botnet controllers have got their timing back on track, after a previous batch of Valentine messages…