March 12, 2012
Some people call any type of malicious software a “computer virus,” but that isn’t accurate. Viruses, worms, and trojans are different types of malicious software with different behaviors. In particular, they spread themselves in very different ways. Malicious software in general is referred to as “malware.” If you want a catch-all term for bad computer software, malware is the word to use.
January 8, 2012
What do you do with a worm used for financial fraud when that gig starts to feel a little stale? You use it to steal Facebook logins and spam malware. That’s what has happened in the case of Ramnit, a malicious worm that has been spreading via executable and HTML files since April of 2010 (yes, almost two years ago).
August 30, 2011
Say hello to Morto, a Windows worm that has been spreading like wildfire over the last weekend. This new nasty has struck by spreading over the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol. Rather than using fancy network trickery, Morto attempts to infect its target by entering passwords commonly used to secure RDP.
