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July 15th, 2002 There is a growing concern about a new modification of "Frethem" worm. . These new modifications K and L, use i-frame hole in the Internet Explorer. The worm has the following subject: "Re: Your password!" and the following body text: "ATTENTION! You can access very important information by this password DO NOT SAVE password to disk use your mind now press cancel." After activation it records itself in the registry, spreads by sending itself to everyone on the address book and installs a utility that would enable hackers to gain administrative control over your PC. |
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June 26th, 2002 There are new modifications of the worm "Lentin" detected. . The latest modifications "G" and "E" are potentially more dangerous than it's previous versions, because they are activated based on the same principle as Klez virus-load automatically without user's notification. The worm comes as .exe attachment and is approximately 20 kilobytes in size. It is very hard to identify it, since the subject line varies. Most of the times it has romance-related phrases like "true love" or "I am for u". If infected the worm will stop several processes and won't allow the task manager to load. Then it will display a video effect. |
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June 2nd, 2002 There is a new virus "Suplex" discovered. Suplex does not have the capability to spread via email. The only way to get it is to activate the infected file on a cd, floppy or a download. After activation it infects all .exe files, and encodes a large percentage of non-exe files, so that they will no longer be usable. Upon encoding every 1000th file it displays a text with instructions on how to remove the virus. The user will be provided with an email address where they are forced to email for removal instructions. |
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May 12th, 2002 New vulnerability is discovered in MSN Messenger. Microsoft Corporation announced the discovery of a new hole in MSN Messenger 4.5 and 4.6, MSN Chat, Microsoft Exchange Instant Messenger 4.5 and 4.6. This hole is not present in previous versions. It allows hackers to load any code on victim's computer. Microsoft urges all of its users who have MSN Add-in to download the latest patch. Microsoft representatives announced that so far there are no known cases of hacker attacks using this vulnerability. |
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May 1st, 2002 There is a new hole discovered in Netscape and Mozilla. Israeli company GreyMagic Software announced that Mozilla and Netscape 6.1 have a hole in the XMLHTTP module. The hacker can easily take advantage of it and gain access to the files on victim’s pc. The specialists from GreyMagic tested several other browser versions (Mozilla 0.9.7 and 0.9.9, Netscape 6.1, 6.2.1 and 6.2.2) in Windows 2000 and NT operating systems. All of them turned out to contain that hole. Other versions were not tested yet, but there is a strong possibility they will test positive also. |
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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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