“Bot Herder” Jeanson James Ancheta, the BotNet operator taken down by the Feds, told colleagues of operating the botnet of more than 400,000 infected PCs, “It’s immoral, but the money makes it right.”

A new AIM worm, called IM.Myspace04.AIM, attempts to get you to download the clarissa17.pif file by appearing to interact with you. But give IM.Myspace04.AIM and clarissa17.pif the cold shoulder!

If you get an anonymous online postcard in your email, don’t follow the link! It’s really Dloader-UT and Dumaro-S come a’knockin’.

A new survey says that women have safer web surfing and Internet security habits than do men. Some question these findings, while others point out that neither is being particularly safe.

Worm-rbot.cbq, rbot.ebq, Win.32.rbot.ebq, Zotob, Botzor.exe, or Zobot – whatever you call it, and whichever it is, it’s causing a whole lot of trouble across the United States.

Microsoft has this week released an updated version of its Malicious Software Removal Tool for Windows (KB890830). This free tool is not a replacement for anti-virus, anti-spyware, or anti-spamware. Rather it is a separate, additional tool (and did I mention that it’s free?), offered by Microsoft, which seeks out and…

Microsoft’s new operating system, Vista, was barely out in beta when security company F-Secure advised that an Austrian going by the nickname of “Second Part to Hell” had already written a Vista virus. F-Secure has dubbed the new virus “Danom”. The problem is that Danom is not really a Vista…

While consumers, and indeed the online security industry, have typically not paid much mind to warnings of nasties being sent to or through a Bluetooh device, experts are warning that this needs to change. Case in point: the newly discovered Doombot.A, which carries with it CommWarrior.B, which sends itself out…

The Kirvo Trojan visits you via Instant Messenger, blazing a trail so that Spybot can then install itself on your system. And once you have a Spybot infestation, all bets are off.

The newest worm in the big apple known as the Internet is worm_opaniki.y, also known as Oscabot-L. What makes Opaniki.y unique is that it impersonates iTunes, by sending itself around disguised as “iTunes.exe”. Propogating itself across AOL’s Instant Messenger platform, AIM, Opaniki.y / Oscabot-L tricks unwary users into clicking on…

A new worm has hit the streets, and it’s a double-edged worm. The Lebreat worm, which is mailing itself around calling itself “Breatle AntiVirus” is both a network worm and a mass-email worm. It’s two, two, two worms in one. According to security firm F-Secure, once Lebreat (or “Breatle”, or…

Like Christopher Pierson, the Tsunami Spammer before him, some sicko has decided to take advantage of the recent bombing in London, and to use them as a hook for his (or her) spam, which carries a Trojan horse to the victim’s computer. The spam bearing the Trojan claims to offer…

It turns out that crime does pay, after all. Informants, that is. Microsoft has announced that they will pay out a promised $250,000 USD reward to two informants who helped lead authorities to Sasser creator Sven Jaschan. The teenaged Jaschan was tried last week, and received a suspended sentence for…

Sven Jaschan looks like, and by most accounts is, a typical teenager. That is, except for that small matter of bringing hundreds of thousands of computer systems around the world to a screeching halt – or at least a snail’s paced crawl – with his unleashing of the Sasser worm….

Top Internet security companies agree and are warning that at least one virus writer is specifically targeting government computer systems, both in the UK and the United States, and elsewhere. Said Dave Cowings, a Senior Business Intelligence Manager for security company Symantec, “This appears to be a very specific virus…