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April 16th, 2002 There is a new modification of I-Worm.Klez(.h) discovered. There are already reports received about these infections from different countries. It uses the vulnerability in Internet Explorer's I-Frame. This worm can infect computers by email without them knowing or authorizing anything, which makes this virus especially dangerous. Klez.h is very destructive. It modifies all the files on the infected disks with a random content. These files cannot be repaired; they have to be replaced from the backup copies. It also attacks all know antivirus programs and tries to delete them from your hard drive. |
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April 10th, 2002 There is a new virus discovered, which spreads by email, IRC and AIM. The name of the worm is Aphex, however it also goes by the names: Win32.Aphex, WORM_APLORE.A., W32.Aplore@mm, I-Worm.Aphex, W32/Aplore-A, W32/Aplore@MM, Bloodhound.VBS.Worm It has 2 components: executable file and a script written on Visual Basic. Email.vbs is used to spread the virus from Outlook's address book. The name of the attachment is psecure20x-cgi-install.version6.01. bin.hx.com (has the size of approximately 32 kb). The damage from this worm is considered low. |
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March 14th, 2002 Microsoft announced that there is a new virus found targeting MSN Messenger by the name of Warhol. It sends the unsuspecting user an invitation the following message "Go To http://www.masenko-media.net/cool.html NoW !!!" (there are also other sites used). This website contains a virus that gets a hold of the contact list, thru the hole in the browser. Then the virus sends itself to everyone on that contact list. Warhol is not performing any destructive actions, however Microsoft just released a new patch for I.E. |
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March 6th, 2002 British site vnunet has discovered the first and only online virus generator "Macro Maker v1.2". Everyone who didn't even know any programming languages could go to the site hosted on freeservers.com and write up a text that should be activated on the infected computer. After, the script generated Macro text, which the user had to place into Word document, and send it to someone. Right after the administration of freeservers.com was notified; the site was immediately shut down, however there is no guarantee that this hacker won't open another free hosting account somewhere else. |
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February 22nd, 2002 A large number of accounts is being stolen on ICQ. According to the British news site there is evidence that a massive number of accounts has been stolen on ICQ. Theregister.co.uk made this conclusion based on emails from their readers, which lost ICQ accounts. These users all discovered that access to their account was denied and the email was changed to uin@deathrow.com. When performing a search on ICQ White Pages – hundreds of listings come up with this email. This provides credible evidence that there is massive hacker attack going on. |
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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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