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Trojan masquerades as Skype update
October 18, 2005
Cybercriminals are trying to lure e-mail users into installing a Trojan horse by making the malicious code look like a Skype update.
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MessageLabs Ltd.
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eBay Inc.
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Trojan horse targets Skype users
March 23, 2007
A variant of the Warezov Trojan horse has again been programmed to spread through the instant-messaging feature in Skype.
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Kurt Sauer
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Websense Inc.
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IM
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Trojan sucks life from PSPs
October 6, 2005
Malicious software claims to undo Sony's patch attempt to deter customizers, but turns game player into a useless "brick" instead.
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Symantec Corp.
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Sony Corp.
Watchdog-attacking Bagle ramps up
March 1, 2005
A new Bagle Trojan horse that hurts security applications is spreading rapidly.
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World Cup head butt used as Trojan bait
July 18, 2006
Malicious code is delivered on a Web site made to look like that of world soccer federation FIFA.
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Soaring malware levels hint at criminal activity
July 5, 2005
Nearly 8,000 different pieces of malicious code have been detected by Sophos this year--mainly emanating from criminal gangs.
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Microsoft Corp.
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."
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F-Secure Corp.
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Web attackers get better at hiding
April 18, 2007
In cat-and-mouse game with security pros, cybercrooks are hiding malicious code in Flash animations and encoding it, expert says.
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Jose Nazario
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The new battleground in cybercrime
November 30, 2007
Finjan CTO Yuval Ben-Itzhak writes that user data increasingly is driving "criminal-2-criminal" business.
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Finjan Software Inc.
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Security firm: Samsung site hosts Trojan
September 8, 2006
Malware that steals access codes sits on Samsung server and is spread by malicious spam and IM, Websense says.
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Dutch police nab suspected 'bot herders'
October 7, 2005
The three suspects allegedly hijacked more than 100,000 computers worldwide and connected those in a botnet.
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Cracking open the cybercrime economy
December 14, 2007
Hacking for fun has evolved into hacking for profit, and created a business model nearly as sophisticated as that of legal software.
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McAfee Inc.
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