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Australian supermarket chain ALDI might seem like the last place where one can pick up a Conficker infection, but according to an emergency security alert by the Australian …

When the news that the Spanish police arrested the three individuals suspected of running the Mariposa botnet was made public back in March 2010, it was generally thought that …

Koobface – the computer worm that targets users of the social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and others – has stopped using Facebook to …

According to data gathered by Panda Security, only 39 percent of computers scanned in February were infected with malware, compared to 50 percent last month. Trojans were …

Sourcefire released Immunet 3.0 which enables users to create custom anti-malware signatures for more accurate protection against targeted attacks and offers a Cloud Recall …

The Conficker worm is the largest computer worm infection with more than seven million government, business and home computers in over 200 countries now under its control. In …

Every month hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting computer users are faced by the inconveniences, complications and data loss that can come with Trojan horses, worms and email …

The most active day for threat-related traffic worldwide is Tuesday, with Monday a close second, according to a report by SonicWALL. This pattern holds true for the U.S., …

An e-mail supposedly coming from Microsoft and urging the recipients to update their Windows has started making rounds yesterday: There are a lot of people out there who will …

A relatively new worm that Symantec named W32.Yimfoca presents a very interesting and never before seen modus operandi. A variant of the worm spreads via Yahoo! Messenger and, …

Viruses will become more subtle and even harder to detect in 2011, and the primary line of attack will continue to be via the internet, according to Redscan. Malware is now …

Is there a better way of analyzing the ins and outs of a botnet than making one yourself? The answer to that question was negative for ESET’s researcher Pierre-Marc …