By Windows Club

There is a new fake Microsoft Security Essentials doing the rounds! This Microsoft Security Essentials Alert is basically a Trojan which tries to trick you into buying one of the 5 rogue anti-virus programs that it is pushing.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Virus & AntiVirus News at 22:25

by Vanesa Fuhrmans
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Siemens AG said a computer virus designed to attack the industrial control systems it makes to help monitor power grids and other key infrastructure has been largely suppressed, but the threat has stepped up government and private-sector efforts to ward off future attacks.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Virus & AntiVirus News at 10:56

By Sue Marquette Poremba

The Trojan Zeus continues to cause problems for both businesses and consumers.

Last month, M86 Security Labs discovered a new malicious code being used to attack PCs. According to a release from M86:

Based on information M86 Security Labs found on the malicious Command & Control (C&C) server, we assume that close to £675,000 [US$1.05 million] was stolen from the bank between July 5 and Aug. 4, 2010, and approximately 3,000 customer accounts were compromised. These cybercriminals used a combination of the new Zeus v3 Trojan and exploit toolkits to successfully avoid anti-fraud systems while robbing bank accounts.

How it worked went like this: The Zeus v3 got into computers while users surfed the Internet. The software stole a customer's online banking ID and, if there was more than £800 [US$1,250] in the account, money was transferred to a different account. The Trojan, after clearing out the bank account, served up a fake bank statement page that made it look like all of the money was still there, but in fact the account was practically empty.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Virus & AntiVirus News at 06:59

The first Android trojan spread via SMS messages has been found - it's payload is that it racks up charges by sending text messages to premium-rate numbers.

Premium rate dialers are a nasty scam very familiar to PC owners, particularly during the dial-up era. Once a trojan is in your system, it makes calls, and now sends text messages, to a premium rate number operated by the criminals who wrote the virus. The best part for the virus authors is that they don't have to rob you of any money directly - your phone provider collects your cash on behalf of the criminals.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Virus & AntiVirus News at 21:39