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This particular worm changes the wallpaper of the device to expose an image of 80’s pop singer Rick Astley and shows the message ‘ikee is never going to give you up’. The hacker told he created the worm to make users familiar with the risk of not to change the default password for their phone.
Computer security news sources are announcing a relatively new trojan named Daonolfix, which spreads on forums, could potentially be devastating to a multitude of computers.
Daonolfix belongs to the Win32/Daonol of Infostealer.Daonol family of Trojans and spreads quickly through network and Internet. It is able to control network traffic, steal FTP credentials, prevent access to security Web sites, disable access to system programs and redirect Internet searches to websites which host other viruses from the affected computer.
The application Honesty Box, which allows users to send and receive “anonymous messages and discover what people really think of you”, has become the focus of hackers who want to steal Facebook users’ personal information for their own malicious purposes.
If used successfully, a malicious Rootkit could help cyber criminals crash computer systems, steal personal information, and even steal money.
A ‘Rootkit‘ is one of the stealthiest types of malware, which can effectively hide the presence of other spyware or viruses from the user which enables third parties to steal information from a user’s computer without his or her knowledge.
Trojan.Ramvicrype has uncommon “Trojan behavior” because it encrypts data files on the compromised computer but does not ask the user to visit a Website to get the solution to decrypt the data. This particular Trojan renames the files with a new ‘vicrypt’ extension which is rather unheard of from other well-known Trojan parasites.
It was found that you can view almost all the tweets of an account if you enter “site:twitter.com/username” (replace username with the Twitter name) in the Google search engine. Inevitably, this caused an alarm among Twitter users that value their privacy.
So you have an iPhone and you are happy that MMS is now available for the ridiculous price that you may already be paying for service. You perform an internet search on “iPhone MMS” to find out if everyone is just as happy as you with MMS on the iPhone and the search result that you click on redirects you to a malicious site that downloads malware onto your system. If this has not happened to you then consider yourself lucky.
Zbot Trojan, or known as Zeus, has been around since the year 2006 where it was spread through spam messages that claimed to be a Microsoft Outlook critical update. A new study, taken place just recently of 10,000 computers infected with Zbot that had a majority running an up-to-date antivirus program, revealed that the antivirus programs only detected Zbot about 23 percent of the time.
Swine flu has gotten us all a little anxious. Maybe even a little paranoid. Was the man who sneezed next to me on the bus infected? Am I infected? I do feel a little head sore coming on. Regardless, Influenza H1N1 is not the life-threatening plague many might make it out to be.
The same, however, cannot be said for those malware authors out there now seeking to take advantage of the global panic surrounding this illness. These people are a different kind of plague, though, one that is more of an annoyance than life-threatening.
The popular blog publishing application and content management system, WordPress, has fallen under heavy fire lately due to a particularly nasty little worm circulating many users’ blogs who are still using outdated versions of the blogging software.
The vulnerability that allows this attack was discovered on August 11, causing WordPress to quickly spring into action, advising users to upgrade to version 2.8.4. Unfortunately, many people have yet to make the move to this latest version, and the worm is taking advantage of the hesitation.
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