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About Trend Micro
Trend Micro is a leader in network antivirus and Internet content security software and services. The Tokyo-based corporation has its European headquarters in Marlow, England, and business units worldwide. Trend Micro products are sold through corporate, value-added resellers and managed service providers.
Continuous innovation, including new behavior-based technologies and managed services, and enhancements to our traditional products that offer comprehensive secure content management solutions such as antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, anti-phishing, content filtering, information leakage prevention, and compliance capabilities.
Continuous growth - with new programs and deepened engagements with valued channel and technology development partners we will continue to seek new avenues for extending our expertise into new markets and new ways of serving our customers.
Continuous leadership in core markets such as messaging and Web security, and expert knowledge to provide customers guidance on managing security issues in the current environment.
Continuous commitment to stay one step ahead of new threats and provide our customers with the freedom to use their computers as they desire without worrying about protecting their systems and data against a growing range of Web threats.
Trend Micro Products
Whether you are at home or on the go, Trend Micro Internet Security Pro safeguards your online transactions, identity, and irreplaceable files with the most comprehensive protection available. Get all the benefits of our proven Internet security plus enhanced identity theft protection, Wi-Fi validation, data theft protection, and system recovery.
Protect your Windows-based environment 24x7 against multiple Internet threats - including spam, spyware, viruses, phishing and inappropriate content - with easy-to-install, easy-to-manage solution that safeguards PCs, notebooks and servers, including Microsoft Exchange servers. Trend Micro Client Server Messaging Security for SMB is a Worry-Free™ security solution that provides your business with automatic threat detection and removal, offering protection against increasingly sophisticated threats to protect your network and employee productivity. It's like having a virtual security team.
Spyware is a headache-one that your desktop antivirus product may not address. Boost your protection with Trend Micro Anti-Spyware for SMB, the Worry-Free™ security solution that detects and removes all types of spyware. It provides best-in-class protection that is compatible with your existing solutions and upgradeable to other Trend Micro solutions, preserving your investment.
Protect your Internet gateway, mail servers, file servers, and mobile and desktop PCs with Trend Micro NeatSuite. An easy to manage solution, NeatSuite defends against hackers, viruses, worms, spam, spyware, bots, phishing attacks and inappropriate content. It delivers automatic threat prevention, protection and cleanup and supports other Trend Micro solutions for outbreak prevention and damage cleanup.
Protect your Internet gateway, mail and network servers, desktops and laptops with Trend Micro™ NeatSuite™ Standard, a fully integrated, centrally managed security suite designed to stop Web-based attacks, viruses, spyware, spam, and blended threats. NeatSuite Standard is designed for mid-sized businesses with limited IT resources in need of an integrated, all-in one security solution that is easy to manage and deploy.
Proactively manage your security infrastructure with centralized administration for security updates, patch deployment, coordinated response, and remote management capabilities. Trend Micro Control Manager acts as a central command center for deploying threat-specific expertise across the network and select third-party products. An exclusive multi-tier management structure delivers the flexibility and scalability to support the largest enterprise deployments.
Spam, viruses, spyware, phishing, and inappropriate content can disrupt business operations and reduce productivity. Hidden in email and enabled by Web connections, these rapidly evolving threats consume network resources, drive up support costs, and endanger confidential information, employee privacy, and compliance efforts. Trend Micro™ InterScan™ Gateway Security Appliance is an all-in-one dynamic security platform that stops threats before they can damage your network.
Win the battle against email threats with Trend Micro’s InterScan Messaging Security Suite. It protects your network by integrating award-winning antivirus with zero-day protection, powerful anti-spam, and anti-phishing along with content filtering for compliance and data security. This flexible software solution is delivered on a single, highly scalable platform with centralized management for easy, comprehensive email security at the gateway.
Attack Internet threats at the gateway before they attack your network and data. Trend Micro InterScan VirusWall provides complete protection against all Internet-borne threats from the leader in gateway antivirus solutions. Consolidate your infrastructure and reduce total cost of ownership through single-vendor support and maintenance, fewer support calls, improved network availability and increased employee productivity.
Now you can effectively secure your SharePoint environment with Trend Micro PortalProtect. It ensures the availability and security of this business-critical collaboration infrastructure, while also protecting the sensitive information resources by blocking viruses, worms and other malware and inspecting for inappropriate content or inadvertent misuse. One of the most mature solutions available, PortalProtect minimizes the impact on your infrastructure and administrators.
Stop spam and email-borne threats before they reach the desktop with Trend Micro ScanMail for Lotus Domino. The top product in its class over the past five years, ScanMail for Lotus Domino provides a highly reliable, scalable, available and manageable security solution that delivers proven protection with minimal impact on your email infrastructure and administrators.
Stop viruses, spyware, spam, phishing, and inappropriate content at the mail server—the central point of inspection for internal communications plus inbound mail beyond the gateway. ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange delivers industry-leading mail server security with new technologies to combat zero-day threats, image spam, and spyware. ScanMail is optimized for all versions of Exchange, including Exchange Server 2007, minimizing server impact and IT cost. Tighter integration with the Microsoft platform and management tools help streamline administration.
Protect your desktops, laptops, and network servers with OfficeScan™, comprehensive security against today’s complex, blended threats and Web-based attacks. New Web Reputation protects your clients - on and off the network - by blocking access to and from malicious sites. OfficeScan also delivers improved virus and spyware protection, new anti-rootkit, variant detection, plus malware and remnant removal.
Control access to your network with Trend Micro Network VirusWall Enforcer. This plug-n-protect, agentless network access control (NAC) appliance controls network access by ensuring devices—managed or unmanaged, local or remote—comply with corporate security policies—before they can access the network. Extend secure network access to remote and mobile employees, contractors, partners and customers without excessive administrative costs.
Spyware can drain system performance and staff resources - fight back with Trend Micro Anti-Spyware Enterprise Edition. It delivers enterprise-class protection - high detection and automatic cleaning - in a small footprint. Anti-Spyware Enterprise Edition augments existing antivirus solutions. Preserve your investment in security infrastructure while protecting against all types of spyware, even those that use rootkits to avoid detection.
Prevent viruses from spreading through your network by blocking them at the storage subsystem. Trend Micro ServerProtect for EMC Celerra detects and removes virus from files and compressed files in real time. ServerProtect delivers 24x7 antivirus support and protection with automatic, incremental virus updates. Centralized management of servers via a Web-based console simplifies network protection.
Protect your Linux file servers from becoming unwitting hosts for viruses, trojans, bots and a full range of other malware. Trend Micro Server Protect for Linux offers real-time protection, high performance and low processing overhead, and supports all common Linux distributions. Server Protect for Linux adds another powerful solution to your enterprise’s security and compliance strategy.
Prevent viruses from spreading through your network by blocking them before they reach the end user. Trend Micro ServerProtect for Microsoft Windows and Novell NetWare scans, detects and removes virus from files and compressed files in real time. ServerProtect delivers 24x7 antivirus support and protection with automatic, incremental virus updates. Centralized management of servers via a Web-based console simplifies network protection.
Prevent viruses from spreading through your network by blocking them at the storage subsystem. Trend Micro ServerProtect for Network Appliance filers safeguards your file storage systems with single or multiple scans in real time. Automatic, incremental virus updates and centralized management of servers via a Web-based console simplify network protection.
Protect your users from viruses and malicious code by blocking them at the Internet gateway - before they reach endpoint devices and slow your network - with Trend Micro InterScan WebProtect for ISA. An easy-to-install addition to Microsoft ISA Server, InterScan WebProtect offers high performance, requires no additional hardware purchases and simplified management via a Web-based console.
InterScan™ Web Security Appliance dynamically defends against Web-based attacks with integrated threat protection at the Internet gateway. Award-winning antivirus, anti-spyware, and a new Web reputation feature collaborate to prevent spyware downloads, block access to malicious websites based on reputation scoring, and detect spyware activity on clients to trigger agent-less cleanup. The Advanced edition also stops drive-by downloads by analyzing ActiveX and Java applets for threats, and blocks access to suspicious spyware sites by filtering URLs in real time. Compared to gateway security software, InterScan Web Security Appliance is optimized for faster deployment and less complexity to reduce the total cost of operations.
Stop Internet threats when they try to enter your network with Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Suite. This software suite provides a complete solution that blocks spyware and malware attacks at the Internet gateway. It also prevents access to known malicious web sites and provides an option to clean infected end-user PCs.
Trend Micro Email Reputation Services stop up to 80 percent of spam at its source—before it can hit the gateway and flood the messaging infrastructure. As the only email reputation service to offer an administration console, these services offer access to real-time global spam reports with the option to actively manage spam and blended email threats if desired.
Trend Micro™ IM Security for Microsoft™ Office Live Communications Server (LCS) delivers advanced protection from malicious code and inappropriate content. IM Security can be centrally managed and administered, and runs with minimal performance impact to LCS. Incident-based archives support quick and easy searches for content violations. Complete with instant notification through LCS and comprehensive real-time reporting, IM Security helps administrators deploy and maintain a virus-free IM environment with secure content.
Win the battle against email threats with Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Appliance. It protects your network by integrating award-winning antivirus with zero-day protection, powerful anti-spam, and anti-phishing along with content filtering for compliance and data security. This high-throughput appliance with hardware redundancy is delivered on a single, highly scalable platform with centralized management, providing easy deployment and continuous, comprehensive email security at the gateway.
Protect your Internet gateway, mail and network servers, storage systems, desktops and laptops with Trend Micro™ NeatSuite™ Advanced, a fully integrated, centrally managed security suite designed to stop Web-based attacks, spyware, spam, blended threats, and other malware. NeatSuite Advanced scales to meet the needs of your enterprise, offering extensive configuration options, maximum administrative efficiency, support for the broadest range of operating systems, and tighter integration with Microsoft and Cisco technologies.
Trend Micro Deep Security provides advanced protection for servers in the dynamic datacenter, whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Brought to Trend Micro through the acquisition of Third Brigade, Deep Security combines intrusion detection and prevention, firewall, integrity monitoring and log inspection capabilities in a single, centrally managed software agent.
Trend Micro Email Encryption Gateway provides policy-based encryption to protect intellectual property and to help achieve regulatory compliance. Enterprise gateway encryption augments email security by providing policy-based encryption and integration with messaging security infrastructure.
Trend Micro Email Encryption efficiently secures email delivered to anyone with an email address. Client-based encryption allows the end user to select which emails should be encrypted by merely clicking a button on the desktop.
Trend Micro Product Families
Trend Micro is a leader in network antivirus and Internet content security software and services. The Tokyo-based corporation has its European headquarters in Marlow, England, and business units worldwide. Trend Micro products are sold through corporate, value-added resellers and managed service providers.
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Valentine's Day spam starts to appear Valentine's Day still is nearly two weeks away, but the lover's holiday is already attracting the attention of the web's criminal element. Researchers at Trend Micro said they have spotted two spam campaigns - one promoting a fake gift card promotion, the other counterfeit watches - in the wild. Maria Alarcon, an anti-spam engineer, said in a blog post that as Valentine's Day nears, internet users should expect the scams to get more malevolent. "Every speci......
[more] Europe's spam war hits stalemate Europe's ISPs are just about holding their own against the global spam barrage, a Europe-wide report has found. Put another way, things are not getting better, but are not getting any worse either. Judging from the 2009 ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) spam survey of ISPs across 27 EU states, ISPs spend substantial sums trapping spam before it gets to the end user, mainly because they have to to keep customers. Small providers spend at l......
[more] Cybercrooks getting bolder experts warn Online crime could become more direct and aggressive in the coming months, according security experts. In its annual Future Threat Report, security firm Trend Micro suggested that an increasingly crowded underground market could push cybercriminals to adopt new and more aggressive approaches to parting users and their money. Specifically, Trend suggested that bank accounts themselves will be increasingly targeted. Rather than steal payment information or......
[more] Koobface-like worm targets Skype users Security experts have warned Skype users that new malware similar to the infamous Koobface worm that caused havoc on Facebook is now targeting the popular IP telephony service. Trend Micro said that it detected the Koobface-like variant as TROJ_VILSEL.EA, a piece of malware designed to steal contact lists, phone numbers, locations and other information that forms part of a Skype profile.
"It is also capable of using Skype's built-in instant messaging capab......
[more] Phishing emails featuring Trend Micro logos discovered Phishing emails that claim to come from vendor Trend Micro have been detected. The emails feature the subject line ‘malware blocking tests put Trend Micro on top', and proceed to "inform" users about recent NSS Labs tests which found that new reputation-based anti-virus systems are doing a better job of blocking malicious software than their predecessors. In the tests, Trend Micro's software improved by 23 per cent with the system active. H......
[more] Zeus botnet pushes fake MySpace update Spam has been detected as being sent from the Zeus botnet that prompts users to update their MySpace account. Trend Micro senior security advisor Rik Ferguson claimed that the spam is similar to the Facebook-related spam seen last week, with the user ‘required to update' their MySpace account with a link provided. Ferguson said: "The link in the mail leads to a standard fake MySpace login page, so of course your account details are stolen. Once you have &l......
[more] Trend Micro to protect cloud servers Trend Micro has updated its flagship Deep Security product to protect cloud-based servers, arguing that the shift to remotely hosted, virtualised infrastructure has created risks not addressed by existing security techniques. In particular, servers hosted in datacentres with multiple tenants can be exposed to risks from within the datacentre, the company said.
"With cloud computing, servers, like laptops before them, are moving outside the security perimeter......
[more] Trend Micro CEO: hackers hitting AV infrastructure It's become an all-too-common scam: A legitimate Web site pops up a window that looks just like a real security warning. It says there's something wrong with the computer, and click here to fix it. A few clicks later, the victim is paying out US$40 for some bogus software, called rogue antivirus. Rogue AV scams have become a big problem in recent months, but according to Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen, it's part of a more sinister, strategic attack o......
[more] New Halloween-themed spam just the first fright With Halloween nearing, users should be on alert for spam and other attacks exploiting the holiday, and experts expect social network websites to serve as a major vector this year. So far, one Halloween-themed spam campaign offers readers the opportunity to earn money from home, according to anti-virus vendor Trend Micro.
"Happy Halloween!" the message reads. "Make it even sweeter with some EXTRA CASH in your candy bag!"
The message contains a lin......
[more] Commentary: Microsoft can help kill fake antivirus threat Earlier this week, Symantec revealed that 42 million fake antivirus applications were downloaded last year. It seems consumers are being duped into paying between $30 and $100 for software that basically hands full control of their computer over to cybercriminals. The problem, according to Symantec, is that it's almost impossible for a consumer to tell the difference between a legitimate security application and a fake one. There is also......
[more] Rivals mock Microsoft Security Essentials download Although one of the top consumer security vendors welcomed Microsoft's Security Essentials to the market, another dismissed the new free software as a "poor product" that will "never be up to snuff." Earlier today, Microsoft launched Security Essentials, its free antivirus and antispyware software suite, which has been in development for almost a year.
"I think it's a good thing that they're in the market," said Carol Carpenter, the general man......
[more] Malware lingers months on infected PCs Malware stays around on infected PCs far longer than previously thought, according to the latest research from Trend Micro. Previous estimates suggested that a compromised machine remains infected for approximately six weeks. Based on an analysis of around 100 million compromised IPs, Trend Micro concludes that many infected IPs are infected (or repeatedly infected) for more than two years, with a median infection length of 300 days. Four in five compromis......
[more] Trend Micro slims down anti-virus systems Security vendor Trend Micro is looking to launch an anti-virus suite designed to keep computers running smoothly while still protecting them from malware. The company said that Internet Security 2010 will reduce the footprint of anti-virus software, allowing systems to run faster and with fewer interruptions. Erik Hutslar, director of consumer product management at Trend Micro, explained that the move addresses a common complaint that anti-virus softwar......
[more] Facebook disables rogue apps, but more appear Facebook on Thursday said it had disabled six rogue apps that were stealing Facebook users' log-in credentials and spamming people, and within hours more appeared. Five more of the apps appeared on Thursday, called 'Friends', 'Friends Gifts', 'Matching', 'Pok' and 'Your Photos', according to an updated blog post by Trend Micro researcher Rik Ferguson. By that night those new ones were disabled too. Facebook "will continue to ensure tha......
[more] Trend Micro revamps threat resource site Anti-malware vendor Trend Micro has revamped its online threat resource centre to include new free tools designed to boost security and provide IT staff with greater visibility into the threat landscape. The TrendWatch site has had a complete redesign to offer information on current threat activities, educational videos and threat analysis reports, according to the firm.>New to the site is VM Protection, a free software tool designed to help enterpris......
[more] Total eclipse used to bait scareware scam Wednesday's total solar eclipse over India and China has been exploited as a bait for sites punting scareware. Miscreants are using black hat search engine trickery to point geographically-confused users towards websites peddling rogue antivirus software, as explained in an illustrated advisory by Trend Micro. A search term associated with the attack "Solar Eclipse 2009 in America" might appear confusing at first, because the century's longest......
[more] Phone Trojan 'has botnet features' A piece of mobile malware has the capacity to enable a hacker to build a botnet of phones, according to security vendor Trend Micro. The Symbian Trojan, which Trend Micro detects as SYMBOS_YXES.B, poses as a legitimate application called ACSServer.exe and calls itself 'Sexy Space'. It steals the user's subscriber, phone and network information, and connects to a website to send that information back to a hacker. It can also target the victim's contacts with sp......
[more] AV vendors fight 'scareware' with new whitelist Security vendors have decided to take on the plague of bogus anti-virus software circulating on the Internet by creating a public list of legitimate vendors and programs. Run from the website of the Common Computing Security Standards Forum (CCSS), an organisation set up in March of this year by by Comodo CEO and chief security architect, Melih Abdulhayoglu, the purpose is to give ordinary Internet users something with which to check programs and......
[more] Trend spots hole with VMware anti-virus Trend Micro is today expected to announce anti-malware software specifically designed for Windows-based protection in virtual-machine environments based on VMware's ESX, ESXi and vSphere. Trend Micro Core Protection for VMware, slated to ship next month, will make use of VMware's VMsafe application programming interfaces to scan VMs as well as integrate with VMware's management console, vCenter. "The Core anti-malware runs separately in the guest ope......
[more] Twitter Malware Attack Targets Both Mac and PC Why hit one OS with malware when you can hit two? That is the question. The situation is this: The Twitter account of well-known venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki was hacked and used to send out tweets luring users to a site hosting malware. According to Trend Micro, the malware changes the DNS settings of Windows and Mac machines. If Mac users attempt to view the promised pornographic video on the site, they will download a malicious file. "Fo......
[more] Fake Microsoft "critical update" spam propagating trojan A new outbreak of spam claims to be a critical update for Microsoft Outlook, but the message really aims to infect users with the information-stealing trojan ZBot, security firm Trend Micro warned this week. First detected on Friday, the message reads: “This update is critical and provides you with the latest version of Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express and offers the highest levels of stability and security.” The email instru......
[more] Preventing data loss - what's needed Though there are plenty of tools to help businesses shore up data, the lack of policy standards makes the task more difficult than it should be, says Quocirca's Bob Tarzey. The UK's MPs may rue the day a disk listing details of their expenses was leaked to the Daily Telegraph from the House of Commons Fees Office earlier this year, but they were going to be made public at some point anyway, courtesy of the UK's Freedom of Information Act which the MPs themse......
[more] Beladen infections plummet The number of sites infected with malicious code inserted by the Beladen injection has dropped significantly. Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has detected a consistent decrease of sites infected with the malicious code over the past five days. It claimed that the decrease in infections is highly suspicious, and it believes that the infected hosts are still under the control of the attackers. Websense said that it suspected that those behind the infections......
[more] Trend Micro upgrade for data loss prevention Trend Micro has updated its Windows desktop-based data-loss prevention software. The company has launched two versions of the product: one "Standard" for monitoring users and data, the other "Advanced" to add protections for intellectual property and source code. LeakProof 5.0 is being sold in two editions because two camps of enterprise customers are shaping up that use DLP somewhat differently, says Mark Bloom, global mana......
[more] Phishers hit Twitter again By Robert McMillan, IDG news serviceTwitter users who thought friends were directing them to a "funny blog" got caught up in a phishing scam. The microblogging service was hit by two different rounds of phishing, as criminals tried to take control of user accounts and then use them as a springboard to attack others.Both Twitter and Facebook have been hit with phishing attacks in recent days. "The social networking attacks are becoming increasingly commo......
[more] Trend Micro 'de-lags' SMB anti-virus Trend Micro has released a new version of its ‘Worry-Free' SMB security suite, putting the focus on a design it says will greatly improve the software's updating speed. Worry-Free Business Security version 6.0 can ‘buffer' up to 80 percent of the program's detection engine on a server, freeing up the client PCs from having to run burdensome routines, the company said. As with any anti-virus server setup, it can also buffer updates, feeding them to......
[more] Twitter name game sets off alarms What started out as a seemingly harmless game on Twitter set off security agencies and led to warnings of a massive identity theft scam. Anxiety over the #twitterpornnames hashtag game, in which users made their own “porn name” out of details like the name of their first pet, culminated in a warning in the US Department of Homeland Security daily report of infrastructure threats. British Twitter user Dave Lambs (@pembsdave) started the game on May 12 with the p......
[more] Trend Micro goes shopping for virtualisation security In one of its first major moves in acquiring virtual security technology firms, Trend Micro has bought Third Brigade, a virtualisation security and compliance software company based in Canada. The two companies have been working together for more than a year, and Trend Micro sells OEM versions of Third Brigade's products for its OfficeScan systems. Third Brigade also owns and directs the open-source OSSEC project, which develops a host-based......
[more] Conficker.E set to self-destruct next week The latest version of Conficker is set to self-destruct next week according to security researchers. F-Secure, Trend Micro and SecureWorks are among those that believe Conficker.E - first spotted this April and probably created by the same attackers that since last fall let loose the Conficker.A through Conficker.C variants - has been designed to simply self-detonate on 5 May. "It will simply self-destruct," said Mikko Hypponen, chief researc......
[more] Trend Micro to eyeball malware from cloud Trend Micro has unveiled a major update to its flagship scanning tools that puts your virus signature database online, plus a modular security and system management suite with partner BigFix. Trend Micro's updated OfficeScan Client/Server Suite includes an interesting change to the way its flagship scanning software keeps its list of digital undesirables.The most common method nowadays is letting each individual system store its own virus and malware si......
[more] Conficker begins stealthy update The Conficker worm has started to update infected machines with a mystery package of data. Computer security firms watching the malicious program noticed that it sprang into life late on 8 April. The activity on its update system delivered encrypted software to compromised machines. It is not yet clear what the payload contains. The Conficker virus variants are thought to be present on millions of PCs around the world. Spam connection The......
[more] FCO warns over bogus credit crunch relief phishing email The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has warned Brits and others to ignore a phishing scam currently circulating around the internet. Scam emails attempt to trick users into submitting personal data, in exchange for a chance to benefit from a fictitious "Recession Relief Programme Fund". The bogus emails purport to come from Foreign Secretary David Miliband and feature subject lines such as "Global economic crisis relief aid", as expl......
[more] New ransomware holds Windows files hostage, demands $50 Cybercrooks have hit on a new twist to their aggressive marketing of fake security software, and are duping users into downloading a file utility that holds users' data for ransom, security researchers warned today. While so-called "scareware" has plagued computer users for months, those campaigns have relied on phony antivirus products that pretend to trap malware, but actually only exist to pester people into ponying up as much......
[more] Koobface wants some face-to-face time on your system The Koobface Worm, a bit of Malware discovered in 2008, has started to crop up again on social networking sites. Ironic as it seems, the Worm was noticed this week on Facebook, but has spread to nine other social networking portals. Propagation remains the same, Social Engineering. Trend Micro researchers are reporting that the newest variant of Koobface is using old tricks, but adding some interesting characteristics. Like previous versions......
[more] Rogue Facebook Application Uses Fake Terms of Service Alert to Target Users For the second time in less than a week, Facebook users have fallen victim to a widespread attack due to malicious third-party applications. The latest attack is sending out notifications that users are in violation of Facebook's Terms of Service. For the second time in less than a week, Facebook has been forced to squelch a rogue application targeting users of the site.In the most recent attack, Facebook users receive......
[more] New attack singles out IE flaw Microsoft warned last week that it would be easy for cybercriminals to build new attacks using bugs it patched in the Internet Explorer browser; now that prediction has come true. On Tuesday, security vendor Trend Micro said that it had spotted the first attack taking advantage of one of two flaws patched a week ago. Microsoft has said that either of these vulnerabilities would be easy to exploit in online attacks. Over the weekend, Trend Micro researchers spotted......
[more] New Windows virus attacks PHP, HTML, and ASP scripts Researchers have identified a new strain of malware that can spread rapidly from machine to machine using a variety of infection techniques, including the poisoning of webservers, which then go on to contaminate visitors. The malware is a variation of a rapidly mutating virus alternately known as Virut and Virux. It has long proved adept at injecting itself into executable files, which are then able to attack uninfected machines through netwo......
[more] Do Smartphones Really Need Stronger Anti-Malware? After several years of experts commenting publicly that the mobile malware epidemic predicted by some security vendors a few years back had likely been far overstated, more and more researchers are now getting back on the bandwagon. I'm left wondering to what extent the problem is real today, or merely something we need to care more about looking forward. I remember sitting down for an interview with F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen - one of the most......
[more] Microsoft sees 'huge increase' in IE attacks Microsoft warned Saturday of a "huge increase" in attacks exploiting a critical unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE), and said some originated from hacked pornography sites. Other researchers confirmed that attacks were increasingly coming from compromised Web sites. Microsoft noted the upswing in attacks on the company's Malware Protection Center blog late Saturday. "The trend for now is going upwards," said researchers Ziv M......
[more] Vulnerabilities play only a minor role in malware spread, says researcher Computer users are their own worst enemies, a security company warned today, as it released data that shows software bugs were the source of just 5% of the past year's infections. The majority of the attacks carried out by 2008's top 100 pieces of malware were caused by users surfing to malicious sites and then accepting some kind of download, Trend Micro Inc. researchers said today. From Jan. 1 to Nov. 25, the top 100 a......
[more] The myth of cloud computing Companies hungry for IT efficiency and cost savings absolutely love virtualization. The idea of reducing racks of servers into smaller and cheaper machine farms is simply irresistible in just about every enterprise. Security vendors have seized on this with an array of products promising "security in the cloud." But the adopters often lack a basic understanding of what virtualization is about, and that's a problem, industry experts say."When you look a......
[more] Rootkit unearthed in network security software Researchers have unearthed rootkit-like functionality in an enterprise security product. Network security software from a Chinese developer includes processes deliberately hidden from a user and, even worse, a hidden directory, Trend Micro reports. Files in the hidden directory could exist below the radar of antivirus scanners, potentially creating a stealthy hiding place for computer viruses that their creators might seek to exploit. Trend Micro h......
[more] Microsoft warns of attacks on recent flaw A vulnerability fixed by the Microsoft late last month has become a target for two malicious programs, the software giant said on Tuesday. The security hole, caused by the flawed processing of remote procedure call (RPC) requests by the Windows Server service, was patched by Microsoft in late October, after the company received reports of limited attacks against customers. At least two malicious programs -- a network worm dubbed Conficker.A and a bot pro......
[more] Flawed AVG antivirus update cripples Windows XP PCs A flawed signature update to AVG Technologies ' antivirus software over the weekend crippled some Windows XP PCs by mistakenly deleting a critical system file, the company has confirmed. According to messages on AVG's support forums and its own support site, an update released late Saturday for the company's security software fingered the "user32.dll" file as a Trojan horse. As per the program's settings, the AVG software, including......
[more] Sophos concludes €217 million Utimaco buy Antivirus vendor Sophos has concluded its acquisition of Utimaco Software, a seller of data encryption software. With the acquisition, Sophos gets a sizeable foothold in the endpoint data protection market, where it will compete with McAfee and CheckPoint Software. Utimaco is dominant in Germany and Western Europe, selling mainly to the type of large-enterprise customers that Sophos covets, said Sophos CEO Steve Munford. The €217 million (US$314 mi......
[more] Trend Micro: Don't buy anti-virus software A Trend Micro security product manager has recommended people not to buy anti-virus products, including his own. But there is a method to his madness, he assures. David Peterson, consumer segment director for Trend Micro\'s ANZ business, said only a handful of the top 10 security threats these days are viruses, with downloaders, Trojans, keyloggers, and phishing scams filling up the list. As such, he believes stand-alone AV software is best suited for......
[more] Broadband subscribers targeted for piracy hoax Security researchers at Trend Micro have stumbled upon a false spam campaign that is conning innocent broadband customers into thinking that they have been accused of illegal activities. Attached to the email is a file that is touted as being a report of illegal activities in the last six months. However, the file is merely malware. This new spam tactic comes after several ISPs agreed with the music industry that they would send out warning letters......
[more] With rise in China's Internet use, more security threats seen Don't look now but the rise in Internet usage in China, the popularity of social networks and the proliferation of mobile phones may soon give rise to new Internet security threats the likes the world has never seen, according to Steve Chang, founder and former CEO of security firm Trend Micro Inc. In a forum for top IT students at UP Diliman, Chang warned that the convergence of viruses, trojans and computer worms is changing the ve......
[more] Olympic ticket scams just the start, says researcher Scammers have duped hundreds of people out of thousands of dollars each, using bogus Olympic ticket-selling sites, reports said today. A security expert warned that more will follow. At least two Web sites -- www.beijing-tickets2008.com and www.beijingticketing.com -- have been shut down in recent weeks after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) filed restraining orders with U.S. federal co......
[more] Renegade Sysadmin Gives Up Secret Passwords to SF Mayor San Francisco's highly publicized case of a teed off sysadmin freezing the city's computer network should not be viewed as an isolated incident. Unless proper background checks are conducted -- and backup systems put in place -- any network could be vulnerable to the same type of mischief. Usually, it's a mayor who hands out the key to his or her city to residents deserving special recognition. In San Francisco's case, it was Mayor Gavin N......
[more] Will you be ditching your antivirus app anytime soon? For the last few months, I've been hearing some well-regarded security people tell me they are considering ditching their antivirus protection all together. They haven't done it, but these individuals feel the days of having a special application scan to remove malware on your desktop are numbered. Malware has changed, but the applications to ferret them out have not. Antivirus programs, as we know them today, are based on 20-year-old techn......
[more] Trend Micro's TrendLabs Identify Malicious Files Spreading in the run up to the Beijing Olympics 2008 Trend Micro's TrendLabs have confirmed that malicious .DOC files have been spreading in the lead-up to the Beijing Olympics next month. According to Trend Micro's official Trend Labs Malware blog, malware authors are busy mounting attacks that play on the sporting event. Reports have surfaced about a zero-day MS Word vulnerability affecting Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, and 2003 which is said to a......
[more] Security SAAS Makes Messaging Strides Security in the cloud, also called Security SAAS, is currently focused on messaging security, but expect the concept to include remote vulnerability testing, malware filtering, URL blocking, browser proxy security and other areas as the enterprise work force relies more on mobility and applications in the cloud. Efforts at security in the cloud, also called Security SAAS, are currently focused on messaging security, but expect the concept to expand as the e......
[more] Ameritrade Hack Settlement: $2 Per Victim, $1.8 Million for Lawyers A proposed agreement to settle a class action lawsuit to compensate as many as 6.3 million TD Ameritrade customers whose data was stolen by hackers would cost the Nebraska online brokerage firm less than $2 per victim and at least $1.8 million in fees to the attorneys who brokered the deal, according to an analysis of federal court documents filed Friday. "The settlement provides the class members with fair, reasonable and......
[more] Cybercriminals in Web 2.0 goldrush Cybercriminals are not only using new technologies to propagate cybercrime, but are also turning to social engineering to snare victims. According to Trend Micro's latest threat round-up and forecast report, the first six months of 2008 saw an upswing in web threats, but steady decreases in adware and spyware. The tools and technologies used to create popular social networking sites have become a goldmine for cybercriminals, said Trend Micro.In March, Trend Mi......
[more] Trend Micro proposes better mousetrap: cloud-based I've been using the tag line "information security is worse than you think" for several years. Every once in awhile, I meet with a security vendor who backs up my words with scary metrics. Last week in New York, Trend Micro filled this role. According to Trend Micro's Chief Technology Officer Raimund Genes, the volume and potency of Web-based threats is now exceeding the industry's capacity to fight back. For example, Trend Micro says that it a......
[more] Organised e-crime targets students for recruitment As organised criminals move from more traditional crimes, such as armed robbery, towards e-crime, there is evidence that they are targeting university students, graduates and the tech savvy for recruitment, according to security experts and the Serious Organised Crime Agency. "We are aware of anecdotal evidence of organised criminals [who are] moving into e-crime targeting people at an academic level," a Serious Organised Crime A......
[more] Trend Micro gambles on 'in the cloud' technology On Wednesday, Trend Micro CEO and co-founder Eva Chen unveiled a new vision for her company that includes "in-the-cloud" malware analysis. Unlike the computer viruses of 20 years ago, which were slow to evolve and infected thousands of systems worldwide, malware today evolves rapidly and infects relatively few systems, creating thousands of new variants each day. Chen admits that traditional signature-based antivirus strategies may seem a bit out......
[more] Browser wars changing security game The re-emergence of the 'browser wars' between Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and newcomer Safari is changing the security landscape, say experts. The competition between the browsers, along with a newfound variety, has created both security advantages and new threats as attackers and malware writers adjust to the new landscape. In a recent blog posting, F-Secure researcher Sean Sullivan pointed out that the bevy of IE alternatives is having unexpected ben......
[more] New attacks break 500,000 websites More than half a million websites have been compromised in a new round of attacks that hacked domains in order to infect unsuspecting users' PCs with a variety of malware, a security researcher said today. "This is an on-going campaign, with new domains [hosting the malware] popping up even this morning," said Paul Ferguson , a network architect with anti-virus vendor Trend Micro . "The domains are changing constantly." According to Ferguso......
[more] Microsoft botnet-hunting tool helps bust hackers Botnet fighters have another tool in their arsenal, thanks to Microsoft. The software vendor is giving law enforcers access to a special tool that keeps tabs on botnets, using data compiled from the 450 million computer users who have installed the Malicious Software Removal tool that ships with Windows. Although Microsoft is reluctant to give out details on its botnet buster - the company said that even revealing its name could give cyber crimin......
[more] Security firms split over Phorm classification Security firms are split about whether they will classify Phorm's targeting cookies as adware. Kaspersky Lab, whose anti-virus engine is licensed to many other security vendors, said it would detect the cookie as adware. However, AVG, developer of the most widely used free of charge anti-virus scanner, said it would not detect Phorm's cookie even though the Czech firm's CTO Karel Obluk describes the technology as "borderline".AVG has decid......
[more] Security vendors prep anti-virus software for Mac OS X Russian security vendor Kaspersky Lab has a prototype version of its virus protection software waiting in the wings in case Apple Mac OS X suddenly becomes a target of choice for hackers. Kaspersky, based in Moscow, has no plans soon to make it into a product, but one could "be ready in just days," said Timur Tsoriev, spokesman, at the Cebit technology trade show in Germany on Tuesday. Kaspersky's anti-virus technology is flexible......
[more] Gooner fan site nobbled by malware An Arsenal fan site has been compromised to serve up sophisticated malware. Malicious code smuggled onto Onlinegooner.com redirected users to sites in Asia and Russia that download a wide variety of nasties onto vulnerable Windows PCs. The downloaded malware contains a potent cocktail of rootkit, keylogging, backdoor, ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) poisoning, and DNS (Domain name system) spoofing capabilities.An analysis by net filtering firm ScanSafe sugge......
[more] Malware removes rival rootkits Miscreants have created a strain of malware capable of removing rootkits from compromised PCs, only to install almost undetectable backdoor code of its own. The Pandex Trojan stops previously installed rootkits from working by removing their hooks into system calls. Pandex then installs its own rootkit component, detected by Trend Micro as Pushu-AC. Rootkits are a type of malware that hide their presence on infected PCs, making them more dangerous than typical vir......
[more] FBI warns of Valentine's Day 'Storm' The Valentine's Day campaign that the bot-building Storm Trojan horse has been running for weeks is running at such volume that even the FBI issued a warning yesterday. "With the holiday approaching, be on the lookout for spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious software," the FBI said in an alert posted to the home page of its Web site yesterday. "The Storm Worm virus has capitalized on various holidays in the last year by sending milli......
[more] Expedia, Rhapsody serve attack ads, claim researchers Name-brand Web sites such as Expedia.com and Rhapsody.com have been serving up malicious banner advertisements this week, researchers said today. Later Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Rhapsody questioned the reports, saying that although the service had been pushing attack ads, it had put a stop to the practice last Thursday, Jan. 24. Rigged banner ads built with Flash have worked their way into the popular travel site of Expedia Inc. and into......
[more] New Word attacks pose as news about Tibet New attacks using rigged Microsoft Word documents have been launched, a security company said today as it warned users to be leery of mail touting news about Tibet. Phony e-mails purporting to contain news about Tibet and its government in exile are making the rounds, according to Trend Micro Inc., which explained that the messages carry attachments that are malformed Word documents designed to exploit a vulnerability in parsing the popular word process......
[more] YouTube Dragged Into Spam Runs Again! The most popular name in online video sharing, YouTube, is again being used by phishers. Spammed e-mail messages contain an obscure thumbnail of what looks like intertwining limbs, with the video description, 'A touching tale of how two lovers found their heart'. Trend Micro, a secure content and threat management company, has detected YouTube Spoof Site Serving Malware and advised users to be wary of such spam messages. Should users fall for the social engi......
[more] Microsoft not happy with it's AV software Microsoft is still experiencing growing pains as it brings its consumer and enterprise security products and service up to speed. Microsoft released Windows Live OneCare for consumers in May 2006 and its Forefront Client Security for enterprises earlier this year. Both products entered a saturated security market populated by experienced security-specialist companies such as Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro. When Microsoft began investing in the securit......
[more] Russian hackers go offline but not out of business The Russian Business Network (RBN), a notorious hacker and malware hosting organisation that operates out of St. Petersburg, has gone off the air, security researchers said Wednesday. According to a pair of Trend Micro researchers, RBN went dark around 10 p.m. on Tuesday. "The routing information for their IP addresses has been withdrawn," said Paul Ferguson, a network architect at Trend Micro. "That's significant because while R......
[more] One in six UK PCs infected with malware One in six PCs have active spyware or malware infections, according to research. A study performed by UK security vendor Prevx looked at 300,000 PCs. The study showed that 15.6% of those PCs had at least one active spyware or malware program installed. These programs, which include keyboard loggers that record keystrokes, information stealers and fake antispyware, are emerging at rates of 5,000 to 10,000 per day, company officials say. Of these 300,000 PC......
[more] PC stripper helps spam to spread A virtual stripper is helping to defeat anti-spam security checks. Spammers have created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image. The scrambled text images come from sites which use them to stop computers automatically signing up for accounts that can be put to illegal use. By getting people to type in the text the spammers can take over the accounts and use them to send junk mail......
[more] Attackers probing for vulnerable Windows servers Attackers are probing for Windows servers running Trend Micro Inc.'s ServerProtect antivirus software, researchers warned. Early today, Symantec Corp.'s DeepSight threat network monitored a major spike in traffic over TCP port 5168, which is related to the remote procedure call service in ServerProtect. "This may indicate an ongoing mass-scanning and exploitation attempt trying to exploit vulnerable systems for the newly disclosed vulnerabil......
[more] Huge Russian malware attack imminent Trend Micro says a large-scale security attack could be about to launch on the web after its researchers spotted a Russian server loaded with more than 400 different pieces of malware. Chenghuai Lu, a senior threat analyst at Trend Micro, has uncovered a site with several hundred malicious programs and traced the site's server to a Russian IP address. Among the harboured malware were examples of three Trojan families: Dropper.cko, Clicker.qu and Polycrypt.g.......
[more] eBay for hackers launched Swiss security firm called WabiSabiLabi has opened a web marketplace for zero-day security vulnerabilities. The site will sell details on unpatched software flaws. The site is currently offering details on four bugs in products such as the Linux kernel and Yahoo Messenger. No bids have yet been registered, but asking prices for the research ranged between €500 and €2,000 WabiSabiLabi argues that the computer industry's ethical disclosure policies have l......
[more] 'Italian job' Web attack hits more than 10,000 sites The attack, which is primarily hitting Italian sites, has turned the pages into malware distributors Online criminals have launched a widespread Web attack that has turned tens of thousands of legitimate Web sites into weapons, security vendors said Monday. The attack began late last week, and by Monday morning, more than 10,000 Web sites had been compromised, according to security firms Trend Micro and Websense.Although attackers have hit tar......
[more] Is this the end of spam and spoof email? Yahoo!, Cisco: 'We have the DomainKeys... ' Spammers, phishers and other internet fraudsters, be warned.A key internet standards body has given preliminary approval to a powerful technology designed to detect and block fake email messages.It's called DomainKeys Identified Mail, and it promises to give internet users the best chance so far of staunching the seemingly endless flow of fraudulent junk email.Cisco Systems, PGP Corporation, Sendmail and Yahoo!......
[more] Staying safe without anti-virus? For a long time anti-virus software has been in the front line when it comes to stopping malicious programs infecting PCs. But as the creators of viruses and other malicious programs adapt their methods to exploit the weaknesses of anti-virus software, some are looking to other methods to help them stay safe. One such is Brent Rickels, the one-man IT department for the First National Bank of Bosque County in Texas, who has thrown out his anti-virus software and......
[more] Security firms laugh at 'unstoppable Trojan' claims We laugh in the face of Trojans, and tweak the nose of the spindly killer worms Security firms have laughed off claims from Secure Computing that a new Trojan can evade traditional antivirus systems.Secure Computing's TrustedSource labs issued an urgent alert last night that the 'Mespam' Trojan was on the loose and that ordinary antivirus software would not be able to stop it."This threat signifies a trend towards blog, message boards and......
[more] Security tools ready for Vista launch Microsoft is promoting Windows Vista as the most secure version of its operating system yet--but it's still recommending outside help to shield against common cyberthreats. All major security software makers, as well as many smaller ones, will have products available for Vista when the operating system is launched to consumers on January 30, Microsoft said Wednesday. That's a different story from last November, when Vista was released for businesses. At tha......
[more] Malware wars: Are hackers on top? The money made from malware is eclipsing the revenue of anti-virus vendors, a leading net security vendor claims. Raimund Genes, CTO of anti-malware at Trend Micro, cites FBI figures that IT security problems cost the economy $62bn last year against IDC estimates that the anti-malware market was worth $26bn in 2005.The FBI figures include the cost of clean-up operations, not just the profits accrued by the bad guys. Even taking this into account Genes reckons c......
[more] UK firms get the IT security message Virtually every UK company has security measures in place to protect business data communications, and spending has reached "massive" levels, according to new research.A report from Point Topic found that barely one per cent of businesses with data access have no specific security measures, corresponding to only 37,000 workplaces in the UK. Average monthly expenditure ranges from £15 to £134 per month at the smallest sites, but leaps to......
[more] Security firms develop anti-rootkit tools Antivirus firms Trend Micro and Sophos have developed new tools to discover rootkit infections but both are attacking the problem from a slightly different angle. Rootkits are powerful programs that alter the kernel of an operating system, which allows them to hide certain files or applications from the underlying OS. In April, antivirus firm McAfee said the number of rootkits found by its emergency response team in the first quarter of 2006 had increase......
[more] New Windows Trojan causes confusion Trend Micro on Wednesday reported the discovery of a Trojan horse that it said attacked Windows users through an image rendering flaw in Windows, a day after Microsoft provided a fix for the bug. But it isn't so sure anymore. The Trojan is referred to as "emfsploit.a" by the Tokyo-based antivirus company. Initially the antivirus software maker reported that the malicious code would crash "explorer.exe" on unpatched Windows machines. Explorer runs key parts of......
[more] Hacker Spams Huge Quantities Of Trojans, Again For the second day in a row, an unknown attacker Tuesday spammed major quantities of a new Bagle-esque Trojan horse that turns off virtually every known security program and blocks access to security sites on the Internet.
Several variants of the BagleDI-U Trojan -- dubbed Bagle.cd by McAfee, and Bagle.da by Trend Micro -- have been spammed since Monday at approximately 11 a.m. EDT. A second wave hit the Internet around the same time Tuesday, sai......
[more] MSN blogs 'launch' spam, virus attacks Spammers have started using Microsoft's MSN blogging service to host malicious content used during spam and virus onslaughts, Internet security firm SurfControl said. MSN Spaces, which was launched at the end of last year, is a free content sharing and hosting service. Users are required to register for a Hotmail account, after which they can publish a blog and share files.
However, a relatively simple registration system means that spammers are exploiti......
[more] Biggest security holes revealed Media players and anti-virus programs have been named in a list of the most pressing security problems. Drawn up by non-profit security group Sans, the Top 20 names the software most in need of fixing to avoid attack by malicious hackers.
Programs make it on to the list if they are widely used, the bugs widely known and are being actively exploited.
Vulnerabilities are being exploited so fast that Sans is issuing its Top 20 four times as often.
Faster threats......
[more] Hackers turning away from Windows In the first quarter of 2005 software such as iTunes, as well as antivirus applications, came under particularly focused attack Online criminals turned their attention to antivirus software and media players in the first three months of 2005, as they sought new ways to take control of peoples' computers, according to a survey released on Monday.
Hackers continued to poke new holes in Microsoft's popular Windows operating system, but they increasingly exploited......
[more] Site-blocking worm carries phishing risk A new variant of the Crowt worm could block infected browsers from accessing Web sites belonging to some antivirus sellers, Trend Micro has warned. Crowt.D, first discovered Wednesday, opens up the Google News site upon infection, then alters the computer's hosts file to add a list of Web site addresses, the antivirus company said in an advisory last week. When people click on one of those addresses, they are redirected to a local loopback address instea......
[more] E-mail scam directs users to bogus Windows update An e-mail scam making its way around the Internet purports to be a message from Microsoft warning users of the Windows operating system that they need to download a security update -- only to leave their PC infected.
Once users link from the e-mail to a bogus Web site their computers will be infected by a "Trojan horse'' program that allows hackers to control their personal computers, anti-virus software maker Sophos said Friday.
The campaign......
[more] Worm Chatter Escalates on MSN Messenger Anti-virus vendors report an increased chatter of virus activity on Microsoft Corp.'s Microsoft Network messenger Sunday night through Monday. In what appears to be a concentrated attack on users of the MSN instant messaging client, security experts warn that several new worms with unique replication techniques have been launched alongside mutants of the known Bropia virus family.
"We are regularly adding detection for new Bropia worm variants," F-Secure......
[more] Antivirus apps could spread infection A flaw in Trend Micro's software lets attackers run a virus instead of stopping it, in the third such security hole found this month. Internet Security Systems has found a flaw in Trend Micro's virus-scanning software--the third time this month that the security company has picked a hole in an antivirus product.
The vulnerability affects Trend Micro's Antivirus Library, a common set of code used by at least 29 Trend Micro products, according to separate ad......
[more] MSN Messenger hit by double-whammy worm A Bropia variant is using MSN Messenger to spread, and is packaged with a second more damaging worm The latest variant of the Bropia worm was discovered on Wednesday evening. It infects users of MSN Messenger by sending itself as a picture of a roast chicken with tan lines. It also releases a second more dangerous worm called agabot.ajc on the infected user's computer.
Adam Biviano, senior systems engineer at antivirus firm Trend Micro, said that although......
[more] Another Worm Hits Online Tsunami Relief Another worm has emerged in the wild, preying on the generosity of those trying to donate to the Tsunami relief effort.
Multiple security firms, including McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos and Symantec, today are reporting the discovery of the worm. McAfee and Symantec call it W32.Zar.A@mm, Trend Micro calls it WORM_ZAR.A and Sophos calls it W32/VBSun-A.
The worm usually has the subject line "Tsunami Donation! Please help" and includes an attachment named ts......
[more] CyberGuard spiffs up Webwasher to filter adware at the gateway CyberGuard has released a new version of its Webwasher Content Management Suite (CSM), which is designed to proactively filter adware/spyware at the gateway, before it ever has a chance to get inside the network.
Beyond the expense incurred by its simple consumption of bandwidth, adware also poses a security threat to corporate networks. A file downloaded from a spoofed website can contain malicious code that has been scrambled to......
[more] Are Security Vendors Tricking XP SP2? Windows Security Center may not know when your antivirus definitions are out of date. Microsoft says its Service Pack 2 update adds an additional layer of security to Windows XP-based PCs. However, recent PCW tests seem to show that at least two major security suites are crippling SP2's ability to offer users accurate security information.
SP2, which Microsoft rolled out in August, includes the new Windows Security Center. This feature alerts users when the......
[more] Kaspersky has IP doubts about Microsoft's Virus Information Alliance Kaspersky's CEO Natalya Kaspersky has said her company has been hesitant in joining Microsoft's Virus Information Alliance because of concerns that Microsoft would use that information to the advantage of its own antivirus product.
Microsoft's Virus Information Alliance (VIA) was formed to share information on viruses. However, antivirus companies do this already on a monthly basis - more often if necessary - outside of VIA.......
[more] MyDoom seeks to destroy antivirus firms Antivirus companies are perplexed by a spate of recent viruses which contain messages in which the writers threaten to attack them Worm writers have threatened to attack antivirus companies F-Secure, Symantec, Trend Micro and McAfee.
In the latest version of MyDoom – MyDoom.AE – the authors embedded a message ridiculing rival worm NetSky and promising to attack the antivirus companies.
The message has left antivirus companies unsure of what to expect.
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[more] Antivirus vendors await first Linux worm Security firms are waiting until Linux gets hit hard by a virus Although some Linux antivirus software is now available, vendors are waiting for a major attack before pushing their wares.
Many have developed Unix antivirus products, but are only now moving to Linux to deal with potential threats to businesses running both Windows and open source software.
Network Associates recently released its first Linux server antivirus software, citing the ne......
[more] Hackers 'recycling code' to spread worms Although less new malicious code appears to be being written, viruses and worms are continuing to cause problems around the world, says Trend Micro Despite worms such as Sasser, Bobax and Wallon wreaking havoc throughout May, security vendor Trend Micro says it detected fewer examples of new malicious coding last month than it did in April.
Trend Micro said it identified around 1,050 new computer worms, viruses, Trojans and other examples of malware i......
[more] Sasser clocked as biggest virus threat in May Anti-virus firms agree Sasser was the greatest threat last month.
Trend Micro's monthly roundup of virus activity placed Sasser as the eighth most prolific virus for the month. But it still marked the first Red Alert the company has issued this year.
However the network-aware worm topped Sophos' chart, accounting for more than half of all reports received.
'Sasser was the major pain in the neck this month, affecting far more users than eve......
[more] Why Are Virus Writers So Tough To Catch? The fight to rout Sasser and its ilk is fraught with ethical ambiguities. "Out of the 75,000 viruses that are written each year, all but 1,000 never infect anybody. So is it a crime to just write a virus?" asked David Perry of Trend Micro. "We are an open society. Do we give up all those [liberties] that make us Americans?" The Sasser worm author has confessed. Great, say many in the beleaguered tech industry. But why don't the authorities responsible for......
[more] Protection busting Bagle virus strikes The latest version of the Bagle virus attempts to turn off nearly 300 antivirus processes it finds running on infected computers.
Sophos alerted users yesterday to Bagle-AA, which is also known as Bagle-AB and Bagle-Z, advising it had already received many reports. Trend Micro had issued a yellow alert for its customers.
In common with its predecessors, this latest Bagle arrives as an email with short texts in the subject and an attachment. If run, the......
[more] Virus alert: Bagle X Back to basics for Bagle The latest manifestation of the Bagle worm has gone back to basics in its attempts to infect computers.
Bagle X entices users to open attachments by claiiming they contain free software, movie clips or pornography.
The worm also copies the domain name in the recipients address, making it appear to come from someone in the same company or at least the same ISP.
Anti-virus company Trend Micro warned that Bagle X any one of the following names:......
[more] Blockage for spam filtering vendors Predicted shake-out in sector to leave fewer than 10 firms in business More than 30 enterprise spam filtering vendors will no longer be in operation or will have changed their focus by 2005, leaving fewer than 10 still in business, according to analyst Gartner.
Its Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Spam Filtering report has claimed the industry will see "dramatic consolidation" during the first quarter of 2005, as various vendors either fail, are acquired or thri......
[more] Rise in virus attacks costs firms dearly More companies suffered extensive virus infections in 2003 than in the previous year and spent on average almost $100,000 to clean up each attack, according to new research. The Computer Virus Prevalence Survey found that last year, almost a third of the hundreds of businesses polled worldwide had suffered a virus "disaster," defined as 25 or more computers infected by a single virus in the same incident. The report was released on Friday by the ICSA Lab......
[more] Confusion reins in naming of viruses that bug computers Early one Monday afternoon, Craig Schmugar, virus research manager at computer security firm Network Associates Inc., was at his desk taking a quick look at the programming inside a new computer worm that his team had just discovered, still in the early stages of circulating the Web.
As Schmugar scanned through the worm's deciphered code, his adrenaline started pumping. This one had ambitions.
The worm disguised itself as a bounced p......
[more] Sophos beats rivals in VeriTest analysis Sophos Anti-Virus provides most frequent virus updates, fastest scanning speed and shortest installation time Sophos, a world leader in anti-virus and anti-spam protection for businesses, today announced that in a competitive analysis of enterprise anti-virus applications conducted by VeriTest, a division of Lionbridge Technologies, Sophos Anti-Virus led competitor solutions in several key areas including most frequent virus updates in both manual and aut......
[more] Worm could be clearing path for DDoS attack The Deloder worm is beginning to spread slowly on the Internet - leaving two Trojan horse programs in its wake A new worm that leaves behind two Trojan horse programs has begun spreading over the Internet, and may be paving the way for a crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
The virus -- dubbed WORM_DELODER.A -- has made its way into a large number of machines in China, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and the US, Trend Mic......
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