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  • Criminals' botnet more powerful than BlueGene?

    Criminals behind the Storm worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs, which have a combined computing power greater than the most powerful supercomputer in existence.

  • China leads region in malicious online activity

    China leads Asia in malicious online activity, racking up 42 percent of the action in the first half of 2007, up from 39 percent last year.

  • Microsoft weighs in on Kama Sutra worm

    Microsoft in an e-mail on Tuesday warned users to update their antivirus protections against the Kama Sutra worm, the mass-mailing virus slated to begin corrupting files later this week.

  • Telstra blames Swen worm for BigPond crisis

    Telstra last night claimed officially the Swen virus/worm was largely responsible for the surge in e-mail traffic on its BigPond network, "consistent with the experience of other major Internet Service Providers".

  • Nokia to inoculate phones with antivirus

    Nokia has entered a pact with Symantec to help secure its mobile phones from viruses that target certain kinds of handsets.

  • Open source malware: More to come?

    The recent OpenOffice worm may be a sign that malware writers are starting to target the increasingly popular open-source software, industry experts say.

  • AOL worm 'chats' with victim

    A new worm that targets users of America Online's AOL Instant Messenger is believed to be the first that actually chats with the intended victim to dupe the target into activating a malicious payload, IM security vendor IMlogic warned on Tuesday.

  • Worm spoofs Google, Yahoo and MSN sites

    Security experts have discovered a malicious program aimed at tricking users into clicking on phoney search results on fake Google, Yahoo and MSN sites.

  • Worm targets Solaris telnet bug

    A computer worm is using a recently disclosed flaw in Sun Microsystems' operating system to propagate, experts have warned.

  • US-CERT to unveil global worm-naming plan

    Zotob.E, Tpbot-A, Rbot.CBQ and IRCbot.worm: all names given to a single worm that wreaked havoc in Windows 2000 systems last month. Among the plethora of identifiers, perhaps the most useful -- CME-540 -- didn't make an impact.

  • Sober worm makes a comeback

    Virus writers have resurrected the Sober worm with a new variant that is spreading quickly over the Internet, according to security experts on Tuesday afternoon.

  • Watch out for worm wars

    The recent surge in worms could be part of an underground battle to hijack computers for use in Internet crimes, some security experts say -- but others aren't convinced.

  • Trojan horse targets Skype users

    Miscreants have again adapted the Warezov Trojan horse to target Skype users, Websense Security Labs warned last week.

  • Sober code cracked

    Anti-virus firms have cracked an algorithm that was being used by the Sober worm to 'communicate' with its author.

  • Report: US most prolific source of online attacks

    US networks pumped out the highest percentage of attacks during the second half of last year, with China running a distant second, according to a report released Monday by security firm Symantec.

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