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Stuxnet’s earliest known version sheds light on the worm’s development

Symantec researchers have discovered an older version of the infamous Stuxnet worm that caused the disruption at Iran’s nuclear facility in Natanz: Stuxnet 0.5. Stuxnet …

Dorkbot worm lurks on Skype and MSN Messenger again

The Dorkbot/Rodpicom worm, which spreads via messaging applications and leads to additional malware infections, is currently doing rounds on Skype and MSN Messenger, warns …

Cutwail botnet on spam rampage, delivers Cridex worm

Since its inception some six years ago, the Cutwail / Pandex botnet experienced its fair share of setbacks, but it’s still going strong. The main reason for its …

Tumblr worm proliferated due to XSS flaw

Yesterday’s worm rampage that left many a Tumblr site “defaced” with a message by Internet troll group GNAA was the result of improper input sanitation. …

Agressive worm infection leads to banking Trojan infection

An aggressive variant of the VBNA-X “autorun” worm is finding its way onto users’ computers, preparing them for further malicious downloads, warns Sophos. …

Malware targeting Skype missed a trick

Last week reports came out stating that the Dorkbot worm is now targeting Skype users. The worm fools users into downloading the malware, whose payload locks down machines. …

AV-killing worm spreads via Facebook chat and IM clients

A rather industrious piece of malware that – among other things – paves the way for other malware by disabling AV solutions and software update modules has been …

Scareware targets users infected with industrial espionage worm

ACAD/Medre.A, a worm that steals AutoCAD drawings and sends them to remote servers, was recently discovered infecting a great number of computers in Peru and some other Latin …

AutoCAD worm steals blueprints, sends them to China

Duqu and Flame are not the only pieces of malware interested in grabbing AutoCAD files, says ESET researcher Righard Zwienenberg. A sudden spike on ESET’s LiveGrid Early …

Worm targets Facebook users via PMs

A worm posing as a JPG image has seemingly been spotted propagating on Facebook and through various IM applications. “We recently received reports about private messages …

Spam with malicious attachments rising

While the volume of spam messages is falling, the number of messages containing malicious attachments increased, meaning that spam is growing more dangerous even as it becomes …

Ransomware increases in prevalence as cyber-criminal tactic

In the first quarter of 2012 alone, six million new malware samples were created, following the trend of increasingly prevalent malware statistics of previous years, according …

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