Sven Jaschan, self-confessed author of the Netsky and Sasser viruses, is responsible for 70 percent of virus infections in 2004, according to a six-month malware round-up published by antivirus firm Sophos on Wednesday.
The Australian Federal Police today welcomed Microsoft's virus-writer bounty initiative, but warned it is not a 'silver bullet' in the war against the authors and distributors of viruses.
Microsoft confirmed on Monday that German authorities had arrested a man suspected of writing and releasing a program widely used to surreptitiously control computers on the Internet.
Cybercriminals claimed on Friday that the UK Prime Minister's e-mail account has been hacked, in the latest attempt to attack PCs with malware.
The expected rush of viruses using social engineering techniques to capitalise on Christmas and New Years' Day has failed to materialise, with no threats utilising the tactic found by leading anti-virus companies.
A Turkish worm that contains an embedded audio message has been bending the ears of Windows users
In yet another twist to the Storm worm menace, spammers are using a fake YouTube site to trick users into downloading the malicious code.
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.
A virus that monitors a PC's network connections and sends itself in response to any incoming email has apparently failed to spread, despite, or because of, warnings issued by several major antivirus software makers.
The latest variant of the Sober virus was released on Friday and has been spreading over the weekend but antivirus experts say the situation could have been much worse.
Virus writers are combining their efforts with hackers and spammers to launch Swiss Army knife-like malware attacks on users, Kaspersky Labs warned this week.
An e-mail claiming to have information about the September 11 attacks on the US releases a mass mailing worm.
Just weeks after Microsoft forced millions of MSN Messenger users to update their client software in order to stop the spread of a worm, the popular instant messenger service is once more being exploited by virus writers.
A new instant messaging worm that masquerades as Apple's iTunes application and drops adware on infected Windows PCs has been found.
One of the virus writers suspected of creating the Zotob and Mytob worms has been linked to a notorious network of malware creators called 0x90-team.
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