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  • Worries of Storm forming massive botnet

    DDoS danger looms as infection levels boom. Repeated waves of the ‘Storm’ trojan attacks continue to be spammed out, with the latest using more eCards to hook in still more victims. As numbers of infected systems continue to grow, the threat of such a large network of zombies being used for a major DDoS attack…

  • Kaspersky shuffles structure ready for IPO

    Corporate reshaping prepares company for floatation. Russian security experts Kaspersky Lab have announced the setting up of a board of directors to run the company, as a step along the road to market floatation. While the people at the top of the company remain largely unchanged – Natalya Kasperksy has become Chairman of the Board,…

  • Malware and phishing cost US users $7 billion in two years

    Survey finds 1 in 4 risk of being hit by viruses, spyware and scams. US consumer watchdog Consumer Reports has unveiled its annual ‘State of the Net’ study, showing serious numbers being affected by viruses, spyware and online scams. The survey of over 2,000 US households found that 38% had been hit by a virus…

  • AOL drops Kaspersky for McAfee

    Web giant changes provider of free security software for members. Giant ISP and web services provider AOL is offering a free, special edition version of McAfee security software to users registered with its network. The offer replaces a previous offering based on Kaspersky technology, which was quietly taken offline several weeks ago. The customized product,…

  • Trojans and worms hiding behind games

    Mario latest lure to hook victims on malware. Social engineering techniques used to trick computer users into running malicious code on their systems concentrate around simple pleasures, with sex, gossip and entertainment among the most common lures, and the last few weeks have seen several attacks using the offer of video games to draw in…

  • Worm trashes music files

    MP3s targeted for destruction. A new worm has been spotted attempting to delete .mp3 music files from infected systems and attached devices. Once a machine is compromised, the worm, imaginatively named ‘W32.Deletemusic’ ( Symantec ) and ‘W32/DeleteMP3’ ( McAfee ), spreads to all drives, including removable devices such as music players and USB flash drives,…

  • Sony sues maker of MediaMax DRM system

    CD protection developer accused of damaging Sony name. Sony BMG , the division of the Sony group embroiled in a long-running scandal after releasing a number of CDs using suspect techniques to implement anti-piracy protection, has brought a damages case against the firm it hired to develop some of the software involved. The CD protection…

  • Microsoft opens security ‘portal’

    New site carries prevalence data, updates and malware resources. Security teams at Microsoft have been busy this week, with the full unveiling of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center , a portal site bringing together a range of security resources, and also the release to beta of version 2.0 of the company’s home-user security product, Windows…

  • Mpack packs punch in Italy

    10,000 sites carrying exploits in large-scale attack. Sophisticated remote-exploit attack kit ‘Mpack’ has been spotted in use in increasingly large numbers throughout Europe, with Italy by far the most seriously affected, in an attack of almost unprecedented scale and virulence. First spotted over the weekend, the number of compromised sites carrying the malicious attacks has…

  • New OpenOffice proof-of-concept widely noted

    Odd payload, not spreading danger, brings attention to cross-platform worm. A new proof-of-concept malware exploiting the OpenOffice document format has made headlines across the world, despite little chance of affecting users in the wild. The worm, dubbed SB/BadBunny-A by Sophos , has gathered wide media coverage thanks to its strange payload, a downloaded pornographic image…