Tag: virus
Limbo 2 Trojan "guaranteed" to evade security software. It's a phisher's wet dream
Watch out! There’s a new Trojan in town, guaranteed by its developers to constantly evade the top ten security software products.
The developers of “Limbo 2” customise each version and then sell it online for up to $1,300 a pop. Each version is unique, so it’s very difficult for anti-virus software to get a grip on it.
Once it’s out there, Limbo 2 does what any self-respecting bit of phishing software does — it steals bank details. Trouble is, this one sits on a PC and records a user logging in to a banking web site, and adds spoofed information boxes which asks users to enter more information than usual. Data is then fed back to whoever bought the software…
German virus attacking UK World of Warcraft and Counterstrike players – is this WWIII?
This morning I spoke with a French hacker-turned do-gooder, Jacques Erasmus, who uses his extraordinary knowledge over at online security company Prevx. According to Erasmus, a virus was created last Wednesday which is targeting gamers on World of Warcraft and Counterstrike.
Created in Germany, the worm is spread on MSN Messenger, where a spam message directing users to an infected site is sent out to a user’s complete contact list, in turn automatically sending itself to all of their contacts as well.
The worm then searches through the user’s hard drive, searching for log-in details to World of Warcraft and Counterstrike, as well as PayPal and Barclays Bank amongst others. The information is then uploaded to an FTP site, where the hackers can view all the details, as well as anyone else clever enough to gain entrance, such as Erasmus, who viewed hundreds of people’s details…
Watch that new digital photo frame… it could be infected with malware
Digital photo frames are all the rage at the moment, and they seem innocuous enough, right? After all, you’re only going to be using them to display a few family photos.
The truth is, though, that the seemingly innocent device on your mantelpiece could be harbouring malicious software, ready to infect your PC. Some of it is specifically written to attach to portable storage devices.
It stands to reason, really, that any storage device, be that hard disc or flash memory based, could contain data which, when transferred to a PC, could manifest as a virus or trojan. Remember when a batch of Apple iPods was shipped complete with a PC virus?
McAfee Security reckons that the most likely point of infection for new hardware is in the Quality Control section of the manufacturer.
Break out the lambrini, it's the emoticon's 25th birthday today
Emoticons. Love ’em or hate ’em, you can’t deny you’ve used them at least once, even if it was ironically. Can you believe they were first documented 25 years ago? I bet all the 🙂 and even the 🙁 are out on the town today, boozing hard and fast, falling in and out of nightclubs as they celebrate their 25th birthday. Expect to see some very hung-over emoticons online tomorrow…
Apparently in a forum discussion on September 19th, 1982 (I didn’t even think the ‘tinternet was around then for civillians, let alone had ‘forums’)…
Opinion: Facebook numpties deserve to be defrauded!
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
Two days into the week and TWO Facebook security threats appear. The first in The Guardian on Monday warned secret code from FB’s inner-workings had been published on the internet prompting warnings of a security risk for users. Boring! Code, schmode, it’s far too technical.
But then this piece of wonder appeared today in The Times and it’s far more worrying, not least because everyone I know does it – and also because it involves a frog!
Freddi Staur is a cute green frog who has stolen email addresses and mobile phone numbers from users on the social network website – in an experiment to show how easily people give out their personal information to strangers…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 02-Aug-07: Brian May, iPhone, Super Mario Bros virus, Second Life, WoW
– Brian May of Queen submitted his astrophysics thesis, soon to be Dr. Brian May, Astro-physicist! (Yahoo)
– Two weeks of international roaming on iPhone lumps man with $3,000 bill (Wired)…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 17-Jul-07: Radiohead, DVR, Computer viruses, X-Files, Sony Crackle
– Stereogum coerces popular musicians to record covers of Radiohead’s OK Computer to mark 10th anniversary (Stereogum)
– Acronym DVR (Digital Video Recorder) wangles way into Merriam-Webster dictionary (Gizmodo)…
Harry Potter virus spreads
MUGGLES beware – there's a Harry Potter computer virus spreading out there. The clever worm is being fuelled by eager fans desperate to find out the ending of JK Rowling's final book, out on July 21. When it's opened, the…
The Trojan virus that pretends to be a YouTube video
You might think ‘tubing’ is one of those deviant sexual practices that lurks in the moist corners of the internetweb. And it probably is. But it’s also a new term coined by security firm Websense, to describe a nefarious new hacking technique that sees a nasty Trojan horse masquerading as a YouTube video.
British cities rife with mobile viruses, says firm selling mobile anti-virus software
Given the last week’s controversy about how BBC’s Panorama used devices made by an anti-Wi-Fi campaigner to measure Wi-Fi radiation, it’s hard not to question scare stories about mobile viruses when they come from firms who sell mobile anti-virus software.
