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Worm Spreads Posing as Worm Warnings!
Send a mail that sounds like a security warning or an authoritative word of caution, and you have a better chance of potential victims opening it and downloading the attachment.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-10-02

Microsoft Releases Early Patch for the VML Flaw
Microsoft Corporation broke its patch Tuesday cycle falling on second Tuesday of every month, to release a fix for the critical and widely exploited VML vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-09-27

Flaw in Internet Explorer Rings Security Alarm
A critical vulnerability is identified in Internet Explorer versions 5+ and above. Security experts at MicroWorld Technologies say a malicious code named 'Exploit.HTML.VML' is being employed by Pornographic and other shady websites to install Spyware and Trojans into user computers without their knowledge.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-09-22

Womble Worm Spreads Via Bush Email
If you receive an email with subject lines 'Bush' or 'FIFA', carrying an attached image, do not open it.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-09-20

Trojan Bot Exploits Windows Vulnerability, Drops Rootkit
A network creeping Trojan itself is insidious in nature and what if it uses a Rootkit to evade detection as well...
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-09-15

Olympic Torch Hoax Burns a Hole in Productivity, Again
Olympic Torch Hoax Burns a Hole in Productivity, Again The Olympic Torch Virus Hoax is back in circulation in a big way.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-09-14

Pedophile Uses Trojan Backdoor in Child Abuse
'Ilkeston Today', UK, reports Internet pedophile Adrian Ringland forced a Canadian schoolgirl to send him explicit photographs of herself, after infecting her computer with a Trojan Backdoor.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-09-05

eBay Phishing Mail Tries to Compromise Your Senses
This new phishing mail pretending to come from eBay, pushes the envelope real far in convincing you to click on a link and to make you give away your confidential account information.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-08-29

Backdoor Sneaks into Computers through Japanese Text Editor
Text files are perceived to be rather safe and harmless to download from the Internet or to receive via emails and open in one's computer without much fear about Virus infection.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-08-23

Worm Spreads in China via New Vulnerability in Windows
It's become real. The much feared mass-level attack of the Backdoor-Worm Win32.IRCBot.st is underway in China, affecting thousands using Shanghai Telecom's broadband services since the worm's outbreak on Tuesday evening, inform Security Experts at MicroWorld Technologies.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-08-22

Backdoor Trojan Threatens to Take Over User Computers
What if your computer boots on its own, logs on to websites that it wants, downloads harmful stuff like no one's business, takes commands from someone in hinterland Russia and sends mails to anyone and everyone like there's no tomorrow...
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-08-07

Trojan Downloader Circulates Among Orkut Users
Security experts at MicroWorld Technologies inform that members of Orkut Online Community Service powered by Google, may receive a message from their contacts, urging them to click on a link.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-07-17

DNSChanger Redirects Users to Fake Bank Websites
You want to pay up your credit card account immediately, as you just remembered that today is the due date.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-07-10

Scamsters Target Indian Customers with ICICI Bank Phishing Scam
Phishing is a relatively new phenomenon in India, though United States, South America and Europe have been reeling under its impact for years now.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-07-10

Backdoor Trojan Unleashes Dual-Media Attack
Security experts at MicroWorld Technologies have received reports about a text message being spammed to mobile phone users in US and parts of Canada, thanking them for subscribing to a nonexistent dating website that would charge them $2 per day. To unsubscribe the service, you are told to visit a URL and follow the instructions.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-06-28

Trojan Attacks AntiVirus Software to Invite More Viruses
You've seen Hollywood flicks in which the enemy sneaks in through some hatch, kills security guards in dark silence and cold blood, then moves on to open secret doors to bring in more of its fellow folks.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-06-27

'I love You' Mail Carries Bagle Worm in Zip File
When you get an email from Anna, Alice or Ellyn saying that she loves you and offers you a password to open her heart, don't get carried away. The encrypted zipped file is a Bagle worm.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-06-23

Vivekabarathi Virus Hoax Makes a Comeback
The Vivekabarathi Virus hoax is back to do rounds once again. Security experts at MicroWorld Technologies have noticed significant traffic of this email hoax in South Asia and the Middle East last week.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-06-20

Doombot Worm Spreads via Phishing Model Attack
Security experts at MicroWorld Technologies inform that a Backdoor Worm named 'Doombot.k', is spreading fast via 'abuse warning' emails, spoofing domain names of security software companies and leading business houses. The modus operandi of proliferation is strikingly similar to many phishing attacks in recent times.
WebProNews > Insider Reports > Insider 2006-06-19

Ransomware Virus Goes Ultra-Tech with RSA-330 bit Encryption
You've heard about Trojans concatenating files or encrypting them using regular methods to create a hostage situation, and demand ransom to free the stolen data.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-06-12

Ohio Bank Phishing Scam Offers New Security Mechanism
Security experts at MicroWorld Technologies inform that a new Ohio Bank Phishing mail in circulation tells users that the bank is introducing a new online security mechanism for which they need the confirmation from account holders.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-06-09

Trojan Takes Files Hostage, Asks for Ransom!
A new Ransomware that started circulating since the first week of May is getting wider in proliferation with more reports of its infections coming in from various sources.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-06-06

Virus Tricks You into Buying Rogue AntiVirus!
If you get incessant alert messages on your computer screen about Viruses, Spyware, Adware, Backdoors and severe system malfunctions, appearing with a yellow triangle and an exclamation mark in it, you could be infected with a dangerous Trojan- Downloader.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-06-02

Mail Written in Russian Spreads Scano Worm
Security experts at MicroWorld Technologies inform that a worm named 'Worm.Win32.Scano.e' spreads via emails written in Russian carrying an attachment in 'HTA' format.
WebProNews > News > Security News 2006-05-31



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