Malware

16 Jul   Virus News

The "Webber" Trojan Program Turns Computers Into Spam Machines

Kaspersky Lab, an international data security software developer, reports the mass mailing of the new trojan program "Webber" (aka "Heloc"). Kaspersky Lab has already logged numerous registered reports of encounters with this malicious program. "Webber" does its harm by installing a proxy server by which evildoers can perform distributed mass mailings of any data using the resources of infected machines. This past week Kaspersky Lab already detected three Trojan programs of this type. "In essence, we have a situation involving the creation of an illegal, extended network that is being exploited by hackers to mass mail spam using the resources of victim computers, " commented Eugene Kaspersky, Head of Anti-Virus Research at Kaspersky Lab. "What is most troublesome is that this network can also be abused to achieve virtually any goal, including conducting hacker attacks on a global scale and DDos attacks on the Web resources of large corporations or government institutions." "Webber" was spread over the Internet via a mass mailing conducted on July 16, 2003. The message containing "Webber" has the following subject line: "Re: Your credit application", body text in English, and a file attachment named "web.da.us.citi.heloc.pif". This file name is similar to a Web address and therefore can at

01 Jul   Virus News

The Virus Top Twenty - June 2003

Kaspersky Lab presents the Virus Top 20 for the month of June 2003. The percentage shown represents the percentage of registered incidences. Position Virus Percentage by Occurrence...