Virus Named ‘Antivirus...’ Infects Rio Theatre Website

According to news coming in from Santa Cruz-based Rio Theatre in US, several local residents have complained that their computers have been hit by a ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/8/11

Computer Virus Circulating in Milwaukee Hit Many Computers

According to the reports from Stamm Business Technologies, Milwaukee, a single virus attacked several computers in the 3rd week of July 2008. Consequently, ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/8/11

Some Most Quirky Viruses Found, Says Panda Security

Security software developer, Panda Security, recently collated a number of very interesting computer viruses that were found over the last six months of ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/30

Anti-Virus With Large Number of Vulnerabilities Allowing Network Infiltration

Experts from n.runs AG together with other specialists have detected about 800 flaws in various anti-virus products available in the market. According to ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/25

P-I Site’s Advertisements Attacked by Computer Virus

Some parts of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Wesite targeted by a system virus that might have spread through online ads for NWAutos, as reported by ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/23

5.5 Million System Infected with New Viruses in Vietnam Last Month

A leading cyber security center in Vietnam claimed that during June 2008, almost 2,600 new viruses attacked around 5.5 Million systems. It also said that ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/22

New ‘Glengary’ Virus Spreading Across Computers

Internet surfers are reportedly risking their computer by downloading a software dubbed as win32/glengary.p. The hazardous software is, in fact, a virus ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/2

Online Banking in UK Facing Sophisticated Malware Attacks

According to Sophos, a vendor for anti-virus software, Internet banking fraud in the UK dropped one-third in 2007 compared to 2006, with banks still losing ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/26

New Encryptor Gpcode Variant Demands Ransom for Decryption

Kaspersky Lab, the provider of Internet Threat Management solutions designed to protect computers against all kinds of malware, said that it discovered a ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/20

Website of Ottawa Recreation Center Spread Computer Virus

The Ottawa City cautioned about a virus, which might have spread by Ottawa recreation center to the user's system making their systems vulnerable to spam, ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/12

Akonix Warns of More Malware Attacks Through IM

Akonix Systems Inc., a major supplier of unified policy management solutions for unified communications (UC) and instant messaging (IM), said on May 29, ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/10

Computer Viruses Hail from Internet Cafés

Information and Communication State Minister of Kenya, Alintuma Nsambu said that most of the viruses come from Internet cafes, as reported by THE News ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/9

FBI Arrested New Zealand Hacker & Put Him Behind Bars

After scamming several lakhs of dollars that drew the notice of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) to New Zealand, a 22-year-old computer hacker from ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/2

Internet Use by soldier can Lead to Security Threat

According to the news reported by KTKA on May 22, 2008, the US Military staff has warned that the use of Internet can make the network of Fort Riley ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/5/31

Users of Vkontakte.ru Attacked by Network Virus

The Doctor Web Company informed about a major virus in Vkontakte.ru, a social network. If anyone clicks on deti.jpg, an external link, then the personal ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/5/30

Australian Businesses Urged to Assess their Cyber Security

According to Director General Paul O'Sullivan of the ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organization) on May 22, 2008, with businesses and government ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/5/30

Virus of Osama Destroys Disk

Cyber Forensic Experts of the AP Forensic Science Laboratory (Andhra Pradesh, India) advised the web users that if they receive mails with the subject, ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/5/28

Creator of Japanese P2P Virus Pleaded Guilty

A Japanese student was found guilty for fixing a computer virus in the face of an animated film before engaging in an unauthentic distribution online. Also, ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/5/26

Virus Affected Sites are Increasing

As per the US- based IT company, Sophos, the number of virus-attacked sites is continuously increasing. In between January and March 2008, Sophos found a ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/5/21

US Military Infected With Porn Viruses on DVDs

US troops in Iraq are facing a little-noticed problem and that involves DVDs. The Washington Post reports that the US soldiers, who pick up pornographic ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/5/16

Crime Server Controlled to Store Stolen Data

Online security firm, Finjan, has discovered a Malaysian server that controls and command the activities to wage malware attacks amassed a 1.4 Gigabyte ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/5/12

MPs Warned About Spoof EU Messages

Westminster authorities are warning that spoof e-mails are being circulated on the Internet posing as the genuine communication from the European Union, but ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/5/8

Hackers to Use Malicious Hardware Instead of Virus Programs

American scientists at the University of Illinois warned on April 30, 2008 that criminal hackers are preparing to utilize malicious hardware instead of the ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/5/7

Edunet Trojan Facilitates Spamming via E-Mail Servers of University & Military Institutions

Researchers at BitDefender, a security company based in Romania, on April 30, 2008, have revealed a spam distribution technique of "Byzantine ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/5/7

Phishing Scam Attacks South Island Universities

Lincoln, Canterbury, Otago and South Island universities have been attacked by a "spear phish" campaign, which was directed towards leaking ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/5/3

Virus Infected Computers of Two Local Churches in Knox County

The computer systems of two famous churches in Knox County were infected by a malicious virus, as reported by VOLUNTEERTV on April 24, 2008.

As per ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/30

South Korea’s Presidential Office Attacked by Computer Virus

According to the statement released from Cheong Wa Dae, Presidential Office, South Korea, on April 22, 2008, computer virus had attacked on its network ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/25

Virus Brings Down Computers at San Diego Court

San Diego Superior Court computers were infected with a virus that compelled employees to perform their tasks manually and leading to delay in public ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/24

‘Spear Phishing’ Again Targets CEOs

Norman, the firm for data security, on April 18, 2008, issued an alert that e-mail attacks were being launched that targeted a specific group of people. ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/23

New Code Shifts Onus of Protection from Bank Fraud to Customers

New voluntary Banking Code of the UK could hold banking customers operating online responsible for losses from their accounts if they do not secure their ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/22

Firefox & Safari Updated to Patch Vulnerabilities

Mozilla released version 2.0.0.14 of the Firefox web browser on April 16, 2008. The new version is to update the browser by patching security vulnerability ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/22

Celebrity Picture E-mails Deliver Malicious Codes

In the news published on April 2, 2008 by Xinhua, a Los Angeles-based IT security company, Panda Security revealed that the junk mails promises to provide ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/11

Top Malware INF/Autorun Proliferating Through USB Sticks

According to statistics from ESET, the most successful anti-malware vendor, INF/Autorun, a malware that attempts to employ the autorun.inf file to ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/8

Pushdo Sent Through E-cards Rank First on March Malware Chart

Fortinet, a leading vendor for UTM (unified threat management) solutions, announced the ten most risky threats reported for March 2008.

Threat ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/8

Criminals Hacking into Websites Keep Malware Active Longer

According to the Global Threat Report of ScanSafe, a Web security company, remotely controlled Websites are remaining contaminated longer. The annual report ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/8

Viruses Likely to Count One Million by Year-end, Says F-Secure

Security vendors' labs, which are receiving a mean 25,000 pieces of malware every day all round the week, agree that new malicious codes have never been as ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/7

NZ Teenager Pleaded Guilty for Infecting Computers Internationally

Owen Thor Walker, 18, a New Zealand teenager, accepted six charges in the court on April 1, 2008 and acknowledged that he developed a malicious virus that ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/7

Malware for Online Games Shows Staggering Increase

According to Kaspersky Lab, as online games evolve to newer kinds, hackers' targets on their gamers increase in a parallel manner, as reported by techradar ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/5

Computer System Compromised at RCMP

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) computer system used to analyze clues for a threatening trial involving millions of dollars was hacked from outside, ...

» SPAMfighter News - 2008/4/5

Scammer Sued for Coercing Spyware Through Pop-up Assaults

The Office of Washington Attorney General has charged a Scottsdale, Arizona man with forcing consumers to purchase software to stop computer pop-ups, ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/3

Experts Caution Against Bot Attacks on D-Link Routers

According to the Security Experts of Symantec Corp., a leading online security provider, suspicious port scanning bearing antecedents to D-Link branded ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/3

US-Generated ‘Bad Bots’ Attack Australian Computers

Arbor Networks, a cyber security vendor, reveals that the US happens to be the single largest generator of internet malicious content and its latest target ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/2

NBC Sports Website Compromised With Malicious Software

DigitalJournal.com has come to learn that the official Website of NBC Sports had been attacked with malicious software on March 19, 2008, according to ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/2

Pirlames Trojan Writer Distributed the Malware in Violation of Copyright

Masato Nakatsuji, a 24-year-old man from Japan and a graduate student of Osaka Electro-Communication University, admitted in his trial's first hearing in ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/2

Chinese Scammers Sent to Jail After Being Convicted of Larceny

The Intermediate People's Court of Shanghai has ordered four local men to serve prison between six years and half years to eight long years after they were ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/4/2

Linux Systems Could be Hackers’ Valuable Targets

According to a recent warning from Sophos, Linux servers are potentially vulnerable to virus infections, as reported by technewsworld on March 25, ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/3/31

Greater Vigilance Can Eradicate Malware Infection on Websites

Forrester Research, an analyst firm, highlighted in a new study that companies were again at an increasing risk of malware infection on their Websites and ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/3/31

RSA Warns of Increased Fast-Flux Botnets Activities

Leading security provider, RSA, has informed that it has witnessed a hike in the usage of advanced methods to conceal command-and-control bots in ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/3/27

Hackers Converted FlashGet files into Trojan-Downloaders

Hackers, who recently broke into the FlashGet Website, have replaced an updated edition of configuration files of a certain program for a seemingly ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/3/27

G-Archiver Identified as Malicious Spyware

G- Archiver, a program designed to backup a Gmail account to the hard disk of a local computer has been recently criticized after accusations that the ...

» SPAMfighter News 2008/3/26