Mobile spy software use almost always illegal, says expert

Yesterday, we blogged about a “vaporware trojan” which tells people they’re “infected”, collects money for a “solution” and doesn’t actually deliver anything (except a popup that tells the user they’re protected). It should be...

Earlier today we blogged about a trojan which encrypts key files on your drive and demands a ransom of $150. (We are calling this malware Trojan.Ransom.AT.)After the posting, an anonymous source sent us program that appears to...

Finjan released a report on Tuesday detailing how new Crimeware (Crime Software) is being used to steal banking customer data from infected PCs. During July 2007, Finjan has identified 58 criminals using the MPack toolkit who...

A new trojan making the rounds will taunt its victims vocally as it deletes files from a compromised PC. If your computer starts talking about deleting your files, it may be a bad case of a new infection landing on the hard...

Mail attachments and web links remain very popular amongst criminals, enticing users to click to gain access to something appealing or illicit whilst silently installing Trojan software on their computer. Once installed, this...

An interesting suggestion from the German Home Office, reported in The Register:"Germany's police and secret services are pushing for a legal basis for "online house searches" – carried out without the knowledge of suspects,...

Trojans are malicious programs hidden within apparently benign software, such as screen savers, games and even web pages. Once a PC is infected with a Trojan, the machine is no longer yours.The Trojan software may be designed to...

Websense has a writeup on a skype trojan that a number of security researchers have been discussing over the past couple of days. It was originally thought to be a worm.Yesterday Websense Security Labs reported on our blog that...

A second report from today's Register, reveals that "targeted Trojan horse attacks are quickly becoming a major issue for the antivirus and computer-security industries. Last year, computer emergency response groups in the UK,...

Life is funny! Having just written a special report on the five myths and security flaws of Microsoft EFS, some late breaking news is in that an EFS Trojan has just been found. See the McAfee site for more details.

Osterman Research , and has this interesting statistic.Eighty-four percent of organizations have had a virus, worm or Trojan horse successfully infiltrate their network through email, while 54% of organizations have had such a...

Symantec has issued a warning about a new Mac trojan that runs under OS X, although the good news is that the malware appears to be more proof of concept than anything else.Still, it is worrying, as Symantec says that the malware...

Like most readers of this column, I seem to get quite a lot of phishing emails from scamsters trying to con me into revealing my online bank details.Well, now it seems the scamsters have moved on to a whole new ballgame, with...

The new Trojan/Erazor-A deletes files and that's nothing new, dozens of other viruses and malware actually wiped files and complete computers, not to forget messing with your computer hardware.No one knows who wrote this trojan...

Security company F-Secure, is reporting the appearance of a Trojan designed to steal online poker players credentials.In the F-Secure weblog, the company writes: "Last Wednesday evening, the 10th of May, we received an...