by Staff Writers at iTnews

After a year in development, a botnet touted as the ‘Celebrity Spam Gang’ has reached similar distribution capabilities as the notorious Storm worm and is responsible for 20 percent of all spam circulation, warned Marshal.

According to Bradley Anstis VP of Products for Marshal, the gang now controls a sizable spam generating botnet – enough to put them right up there with the current kings of spam, the Storm Gang.

Posted by Johnathan Kastner in Virus & AntiVirus News at 09:12

New surveys find that tech-savvy criminals are seeking new targets
by Phil Muncaster, IT Week 29 Nov 2007

Social networking sites and online banking will be a major target for attacks next year as criminals continue to make money from mining personal data and commiting ID fraud, according to new pieces of research released last week.

Posted by Johnathan Kastner in Virus & AntiVirus News at 09:08

by Pierre-Marc Bureau
Researcher at ESET

At the end of last week, we were made aware of a new targeted attack. The social engineering strategy and malware construction caught our attention because of its sophistication. The threat came as an e-mail addressed to a director at a company based in Canada. The e-mail was addressed with the full name, street address and phone number of the victim, which made the message very credible. It pretended to be from the Canadian government and was asking the person to download and fill a PDF form.

Posted by Johnathan Kastner in Virus & AntiVirus News at 09:22

by Sue Walsh on November 14, 2007

If you got a pop up ad today proclaiming "Hemisphere Finds Gold!" your system is most likely infected with the Storm worm. This nasty bug is estimated to be infecting over 200,000 PC's across the country, and according to the Washington Posts's Security Fix column, removing it is a nightmare in itself:

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Posted by Johnathan Kastner in Virus & AntiVirus News at 09:35