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Trojan horse takes down smart phones

April 7, 2005 Infected Symbian handsets can't be rebooted, and the fix has its own drawback, F-Secure warns. TAGS: F-Secure Corp., smart phone, handset, trojan horse, Nokia Corp., IRC

Trojan creates havoc

February 2, 2006 Trojan creates havoc using antivirus vendor's name. TAGS: havoc, Sophos Plc., Graham Cluley, antivirus company, F-Secure Corp., trojan horse, antivirus, security

Skulls Trojan puts on antivirus mask

June 10, 2005 New variant of the cell phone pest attempts to fool victims by disguising itself as pirated security software. TAGS: F-Secure Corp., variant, Symbian Inc., cell phone, antivirus, Nokia Corp., handset, trojan horse, security

Windows users swamp WMF patch site

January 4, 2006 Site hosting unauthorized protection against Microsoft flaw goes offline after "half the planet" tries to download the fix. TAGS: WMF vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Metafile, Ilfak Guilfanov, F-Secure Corp., IRC, patch, system administrator, flaw, HTTP, trojan horse, blog, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Multiplying Mac Trojan not epidemic yet

November 8, 2007 Security firm F-Secure has discovered 32 variants of the Trojan but says it does not mean Mac platforms are facing a malware avalanche. TAGS: epidemic, F-Secure Corp., Ukraine, trojan horse, Apple Macintosh, variant, malware, codec, IP address, IP, security, Apple Computer, Microsoft Windows

Scheme preys on people who mistype 'Google.com'

April 27, 2005 Be careful entering the search giant's URL into your browser, or you could end up with a mess of Trojans installed on your PC. TAGS: F-Secure Corp., Google Inc., trojan horse, security

Bin Laden Trojan quickly constrained

June 4, 2005 A Trojan-carrying spam e-mail that purports to offer pictures of a captured Osama bin Laden tricks few Internet users. TAGS: Osama bin Laden, F-Secure Corp., al-Qaida, worm, McAfee Inc., picture, trojan horse, antivirus, TV, e-mail, PC

'Storm worm' Trojan horse surges on

January 23, 2007 Many home PC users may have been infected after a large-scale sustained Trojan horse attack that took place over the weekend. TAGS: F-Secure Corp., antivirus company, attack, home PC, trojan horse, Sophos Plc., antivirus, adware, e-mail

Bagle commandeers PCs for zombie army

June 28, 2005 New offshoot uses a Trojan horse to try to compromise PCs for use in cyberattack networks. TAGS: Bagle virus, variant, cyberattack, F-Secure Corp., antivirus software, trojan horse, Symantec Corp., PC, virus

Rootkits get better at hiding

July 19, 2006 Malicious-code writers craft a Trojan horse that may be the "first born of the next generation of rootkits." TAGS: rootkit, F-Secure Corp., Symantec Corp., McAfee Inc., pest, malicious code, threat, API, trojan horse, blog, security

Spy program snoops on cell phones

March 30, 2006 Software hides itself on phones to secretly capture data, leading one security company to label it a Trojan horse. TAGS: F-Secure Corp., security company, cell phone, trojan horse, security, antivirus, monitor, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Mobile Trojan launches Skulls attack

January 6, 2005 A flashier offshoot of the Trojan horse that affects Symbian-based cell phones has been discovered. Photo: Flashing skulls TAGS: F-Secure Corp., Symbian Inc., variant, cell phone, handset, trojan horse

New IM worm targets Skype users

April 16, 2007 Pykse.A, similar to pests that affect instant-messaging applications, targets users with a chat message and a malicious Web link. TAGS: Skype, Kurt Sauer, F-Secure Corp., IM, threat, trojan horse, message, eBay Inc., security, link

Cell phone virus tries leaping to PCs

September 22, 2005 A virus discovered Wednesday is among the first designed to spread from smart phones to PCs, says security firm F-Secure. TAGS: memory card, F-Secure Corp., worm, virus, threat, smart phone, mobile phone, PC, trojan horse, cell phone, security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Online gamblers targeted by scams

May 18, 2006 Through hidden rootkits and Trojan horses, hackers attempt to use casinos' popularity to steal from poker players. TAGS: casino, Betfair, scam, Graham Cluley, popularity, hacker, F-Secure Corp., rootkit, trojan horse

Trojan gets the cell phone message

March 7, 2005 Threat could be more pervasive than Cabir, as it uses multimedia text messaging as well as Bluetooth to spread. TAGS: Cabir virus, MMS, Symbian Inc., Nokia Corp., threat, researcher, trojan horse, Bluetooth, F-Secure Corp., handset, multimedia, cell phone, antivirus, virus, security

Windows flaw spawns dozens of attacks

January 3, 2006 Attacks designed to exploit Windows Meta File flaw range from malicious spam to an MSN Messenger worm. Sites harbor Windows Trojan TAGS: Ilfak Guilfanov, Microsoft Windows Metafile, Internet Storm Center, WMF vulnerability, F-Secure Corp., exploit, MSN Messenger, attack, flaw, worm, MSN, vulnerability, security, fix, trojan horse, virus

What's the next security threat?

April 17, 2006 Gone are the days of simple worms and viruses. Now botnets and phishing dominate malicious software--and new twists are on the way. TAGS: phishing, security company, F-Secure Corp., trojan horse, security, antivirus, virus
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