BubbleBoy is the first instance of malicious code which can infect a user's PC without needing an executable attachment. Security experts have warned that variants of the BubbleBoy email worm virus could soon be in the wild.
The worm arrives as an email with the subject line "Shakira Pics" and an attachment entitled "ShakiraPics.jpg.vbs". Users will know they have been hit when the message "You have been infected by the ShakiraPics Worm" appears on their screen.
But Thursday's mass mailing of the virus wasn't the result of an infection, said Denis Zenkin, director of marketing for Kaspersky Labs. The hackers had managed to break into Moscow-based Kaspersky's computer system and steal the mailing list for...
Along with many other individuals and organisations I can report I am seeing a tidal wave of spam mailing and other disruptive action causing an increasing loss of productivity. The second step could be the banning of individuals and groups...
One Russian security researcher, known as Zaraza, posted a warning to the SecurityFocus bugtraq mailing list on Saturday. Unlike an email-based worm, Blaster was a network-based worm that spread by automatically exploiting vulnerabilities on...
The number of customers reporting a Bagle infection has declined since Monday, according to Weafer. Bagle.a, the first major mass-mailing computer virus this year, is starting to slow down after infecting hundreds of thousands of computers...
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