Viruses, worms and other malware
Viruses, worms, Trojans and all sorts of malware are among the most common and insidious threats today. They can crash entire networks and cause millions of dollars in losses. Come here for news and advice about the latest outbreaks and attacks.
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Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered another variant of last December's malicious PDF email attachments which target the zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader.
PandaLabs has releases its 2009 annual security report. The report details the rise of more sophisticated forms of malware and highlights the increase of banking Trojans.
The number of infected computers in the currently inactive Conficker botnet has reached over 7 million as monitored by the ShadowServer Foundation. Investigators are still on the lookout for the dormant worm's authors.
Several security researches are digging up more and more information on the authors of the currently inactive Conficker botnet.
Security firms are reporting an increase in web-based attacks spreading malware as well as malicious infecting sites.
