Miscreants have again adapted the Warezov Trojan horse to target Skype users, Websense Security Labs warned last week.
Analyst firms have begun to weigh in with initial estimates of the damage done by the SQL Slammer worm, the virulent program that spread quickly throughout the Internet a week ago.
The Australian Federal Police today welcomed Microsoft's virus-writer bounty initiative, but warned it is not a 'silver bullet' in the war against the authors and distributors of viruses.
The next generation of self-spreading code will be stealthier, more targeted and harder to defend against, a security expert predicts.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is teaming up with the Net's top virus-tracking facility to create an organisation to fight cyberbugs.
In three years phishing has transformed from an unknown threat into a multi-million dollar industry; in the next stage of its evolution, phishers will avoid using spam and instead hijack small parts of 'trusted' Web sites in order to bypass anti-phishing tools.
Despite worms such as Sasser, Bobax and Wallon wrecking havoc throughout May, security vendor Trend Micro, says it detected fewer new malicious codes last month than it did in April.
Cybercriminals are spreading a malicious Trojan horse under the guise of an update to Skype, e-mail security firm MessageLabs said on Monday.
A new mass-mailing virus, which disguises itself as a file sent by a computer user's network administrator, begins infecting systems.
Microsoft will work with law enforcement to track down writers of worms, viruses and other malicious code, and is ponying up US$5 million to fund the search.
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