Both Sophos and Kaspersky Labs have dubbed SirCam one of the fastest spreading malicious programs of the year. Symantec have upgraded the threat level of the worm, from a level 3 category to level 4 (severe) late yesterday, due to a 200 per cent...
Kaspersky said it has recorded instances of the worm in Italy. Anti-virus firm Kaspersky Labs said on Thursday that it had detected the worm, called Duload, spreading across the Kazaa network. Kaspersky has added a defence against Duload to its...
That places the malicious program at number five on MessageLab's daily Top 10 list; the Klez virus leads the pack with over 9,000 infected emails intercepted by the company in the same time period. But Thursday's mass mailing of the virus wasn't...
We were certain that a viable malicious program for PDAs would appear soon after the first proof-of-concept viruses emerged for mobile phones and Windows Mobile," Eugene Kaspersky, head of Anti-Virus Research at Kaspersky Labs, said in a statement.
Earlier this year, software maker Kaspersky Labs released its own mobile antivirus software. Yet research firm Gartner recently predicted that a fast-spreading phone virus or worm is unlikely to appear before 2008.
The malicious software spreads via the Alcra worm, which directs infected Microsoft Windows PCs to websites where the programs are downloaded, Sana said. Sana said the Trojan is well hidden by the kernel-level rootkit and that because of this, some...