AIM based Trojan (Oscarbot) installs backdoor on PC

November 9th, 2005 There are few reports of an attack by a new Linux worm called Lupper which exploits a well known PHP XMLRPC implementation vulnerability. PHP XMLRPC implementation is used in a large number of popular web applications such as PostNuke, Drupal, b2evolution, Xoops, PHPGroupWare, TikiWiki etc.

August 23rd, 2007 A Trojan horse, with a descriptive name Infostealer.Monstres, was used to steal more than 1.6 million records from several hundred thousand people who posted resumes on Monster.com, Symantec has reported. The personal details of hundreds of thousands of candidates, such as name, surname, email address, country, home address, work/mobile/home phone numbers and resume ID etc.

May 17th, 2006 Erazer-A is a trojan with a mission. It deletes illicit files from compromised Windows PCs in addition to harvesting data from infected machines.

July 24th, 2006 Scammers have set up an exact copy of the download page for Google’s Toolbar plug-in in an attempt to lure users to download Trojan backdoor (W32.Ranky.FW), Surfcontrol reports. Some versions of the scam even spoof the correct Google Toolbar web address for Internet Explorer, using Google’s own redirection service in an attempt to hide the real, non-Google address.

February 20th, 2006 A computer worm has been found in the wild that targets Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system. It is believed to be the first such worm aimed specifically at the Mac platform.

September 2nd, 2009 Wiretapping Skype calls: virus eavesdrops on VoIPSAN FRANCISCO — Some computer viruses have a crude but scary ability to spy on people by logging every keystroke they type. Now hackers and potentially law enforcement have another weapon: a virus that can eavesdrop on voice conversations that go over computers instead of a regular phone line.

November 11th, 2005 A class action lawsuit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment has been filed in California, and more lawsuits are expected as lawyers enter the Sony Rootkit copy protection software fiasco. Attorney Alan Himmelfarb filed a suit in Los Angeles County Court last week on behalf of Alexander Guevara.

October 24th, 2005 Dutch prosecutors last month arrested three young men for creating and operating a botnet allegedly used to extort a U.S. company, to steal PayPal and eBay accounts, and to install adware and spyware.

July 20th, 2006 Millions of visitors to Myspace.com and other web sites have been infected with spyware by a banner advertisement according to iDefense, a Verisign company. iDefense, an Internet security company owned by Verisign, said the spyware infects unpatched versions of Windows using a security flaw in the way the operating system and Microsoft Internet Explorer open Windows Metafile images, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

June 20th, 2006 MySpace, the super-popular social networking site, is to use the UK as a base for a push into Europe that will see it link up with "old media" companies and mobile phone operators to attract more users. Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and chief executive of MySpace, told the Financial Times on Monday that he had earmarked 11 countries for its international expansion, among them France and Germany, and was looking at China and India over the longer term.

July 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A computer security website has issued a warning that hackers are misusing a video that has naked shots of glamorous ESPN sports reporter Erin Andrews as a lure to attack PC's. The illegally taped peephole video, showing Andrews as she disrobes, gets viewers and web surfers to download dangerous malware to their computers, reports CBS News.

June 21st, 2006 A new e-mail worm, Sixem-A, is on the loose that preys on the intense worldwide interest in the football World Cup. It began circulating earlier this week, and has just recently been blocked by few antivirus vendors.

September 13th, 2005 "We are actively promoting Java in China as well as the rest of Asia-Pacific," said Scott McNealy, chairman and chief executive of Sun, in an interview with China Daily. "We are working with the (Chinese) government and other key players to establish Java as the industry standard for delivering open and secure services." Java technology is being used globally in more than 2.5 billion devices, including 1 billion smart cards, more than 708 million mobile phones, more than 700 million PCs, and in data centres of the world's largest companies and organizations.

January 6th, 2009 Most of you are overconfident about your computer security unless the trojans, malwares or spyware attacks take you by surprise. Well, but only a little of what you fancy does you good.

July 18th, 2006 H. D. Moore (hdm[at]metasploit.com) has devised a Ruby based search engine that finds malicious windows software (viruses, trojans etc.) using standard Google queries. The Malware search engine finds Web sites hosting malicious files after an user enters the name of a virus or Trojan horse.