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September 29th, 2002 There is a new Trojan "Inwi" discovered. .It can be used to gather information on the pc of the unsuspecting victim. When infected the trojan modifies the registry, makes changes in the Internet Explorer browser, including the change of a start page to http://ajim. delphibbs.com. Inwi will load every time the files with .exe and .txt extensions are called up. Its purpose is to collect the information on the user and send it out by email. |
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September 17th, 2002 There is a new worm "Slapper" discovered. . It infects computers working on Linux operating system. What is unique about this virus is that it’s writers used the same "spreading" algorithm that was used about 14 years ago - in 1988 in a, so called, Morris worm. It uses the hole in OpenSSL to take control over the server. This hole was discovered back in June and was fixed, however to this day there are still a lot of servers with this problem, so there is a concern that the worm might spread very soon. "Slapper" can be very damaging to the data. It also gives hackers the access to the information on the servers. |
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August 20th, 2002 Australian hackers are now using planes. . According to BBC, Australian hackers found a new way to hack into wireless networks, with the use of planes. All the companies, that use wireless local networks, are always under the security risk from these hackers. They usually hack from the buildings, bikes or cars that are located close to the target company. Hackers use a regular notebook with wireless net card and free operating system (which can be acquired from the internet) to intercept the waves coming from the local wireless networks and get access to the confidential information. |
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July 25th, 2002 There is a new virus discovered - Lavehn.A. It spreads by email with the following subject line: "ADMISSION 2003", and has the following attachment: "Unheval.exe". After the virus is activated it sends itself to everyone on the Microsoft Outlook's address book, and then proceeds to erase all the files with the following extensions: .mp3, .rpt, .dwg, .xls, .doc, and .mdb. This virus is a modification of Bloodhound.VBWORM. |
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July 22nd, 2002 Yahoo alters the words in its free email service. . Yahoo has a unique method of battling viruses. It substitutes potential elements of a malicious code to its synonyms. According to NTK such words as "mocha" (one of the coffee varieties) and "eval" were substituted to “espresso” and “review”. Eval and Mocha are the commands that are frequently used when writing viruses. As a result the words like evaluate and medieval were substituted to reviewuate and midireview, thus altering the meaning of many sentences. After recognizing this problem yahoo started adding underscore sign in front of potentially dangerous words, i.e. _eval and _mocha. |
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Latest News: November 8th, 2002 There is a growing epidemic of I-Worm.Tanatos, aka Bugbear. It spreads via Internet as an attached file. It contains Trojan algorithms to control the infected computer. The worm has a size of 50k and is written in Microsoft Visual C++. It has a random subject line and randomly sends either text emails or html-based emails. Tanatos takes advantage of the breach in iframe and infects computer without any action on the part of user, whenever the email is opened. More... November 1st, 2002 Microsoft Corporation is warning the users of their products about a new worm that pretends to be a greeting card. People who read this greeting are invited to install new software. In the installation agreement it states that the software will have access to the user's address book. On Tuesday, MessageLabs discovered that these "greeting cards" are being sent from Cool-Downloads.com, which according to whois database is registered in Panama City, El Dorado. More... |
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