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Teen gets 18 months in prison for worm
January 28, 2005
Jeffrey Lee Parson, 19, must also participate in 10 months of community service for unleashing a variant of the MSBlast worm.
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Security from A to Z: Virus variants
November 28, 2006
What's the difference between "Leap.A" and "Leap.B"? A look at naming of variants. Part of a series on hot security topics.
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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.
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Sober worm variant makes the rounds
May 2, 2005
Sober.P harvests e-mail addresses from a victim and then sends a barrage of spam to those recipients.
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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
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Bagle variants punch, punch and punch again
June 2, 2005
Latest variants of the worm adopt new tactics to bob and weave their way past PC defenses.
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Cabir cell phone threat worsens
December 28, 2004
With new, more powerful variants popping up, a security firm warns that cell phone worm's source code may be on the loose.
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New Sober virus circulating
November 16, 2005
Security analysts find large number of infected e-mails.
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Flawed code throttled spread of Zotob variants
August 19, 2005
Some versions contained coding errors that sent PCs into a reboot loop, instead of working to spread the infection, experts say.
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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.
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Sober.P overflow has Web tipsy
May 3, 2005
The latest variant of the worm is out of the bottle and carousing on the Net. Also: Spyware's where the money at.
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MSN Messenger hit by double-whammy worm
February 3, 2005
New Bropia offshoot, which uses MSN Messenger to spread, is packaged with a second, more damaging worm.
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Worms and viruses slip past defenses
June 2, 2005
roundup Bagle variants whip up a blended threat for a bad new concoction. A cell phone interloper, meanwhile, poses as a friend.
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Updated MyDoom targets Google--again
February 17, 2005
Worm searches for e-mail addresses in the infected PC's domain--targeting all users from a specific company or ISP.
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Storm worm variant targets blogs, bulletin boards
February 27, 2007
Blogs, bulletin board notices posted by victims of Trojan horse contain links to malicious Web sites.
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Sober worm offshoot trades on Paris Hilton, FBI
November 22, 2005
Worm variant flares up in the wild, playing on lure of heiress and fear of Fed snooping, but is coming under control.
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Microsoft offers Zotob removal tool
August 18, 2005
Software also kills several variants and other bugs that exploit the same vulnerability, a flaw in Windows' plug-and-play feature.
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Sober storms charts as month's biggest attack
December 1, 2005
At its peak, the latest variant of the worm accounted for one out of every 13 e-mails sent, expert says.
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Bagle attack comes in two waves
September 21, 2005
New variants of the veteran pest have been sent out in two waves of spam, an antivirus firm says.
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Google worm targets AOL, Yahoo
December 28, 2004
Santy worm, which used Google to bring down bulletin board pages, now uses AOL and Yahoo search.
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