Worms Stories

Woman's Mystery Illness Turns Out To Be 3-Inch Snake Parasite In Her Brain 103
'Superworms' Can Digest Styrofoam, Australian Scientists Find 54
Ships Infected With Ransomware, USB Malware, Worms 132
Scientists Resurrect 40,000-Year-Old Worms Buried In Ice 125
Giant Predatory Worms Are Invading France 250
Cisco ASA Firewall Has a Wormable Problem — And a Million Installs 78
In Survey of American Universities, MIT Scores Worst In Cybersecurity 47
Thunderstrike2 Details Revealed 65
Linux/Moose Worm Targets Routers, Modems, and Embedded Systems 110
Coup in Arrakis Capitol Leaves Region in Flux 113
Ask Slashdot: Who's Going To Win the Malware Arms Race? 155
Hackers Used Nasty "SMB Worm" Attack Toolkit Against Sony 177
First Victims of the Stuxnet Worm Revealed 39
Ancient Worms May Have Saved Life On Earth 54
Routers Pose Biggest Security Threat To Home Networks 264
Linksys Routers Exploited By "TheMoon" 134
Porn-Surfing Execs Infecting Corporate Networks With Malware 151
'Morris Worm' Turns 25: Watch How TV Covered It Then 51
Spikes Detected In Autorun Malware 140
Ask Slashdot: Is GNU/Linux Malware a Real Threat? 252
German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection 347
Rich Countries Suffer Less Malware, Says Microsoft Study 84
Interviews: Eugene Kaspersky Answers Your Questions 82
Demonoid Down For a Week, Serving Malware Laden Ads 144
Iran's Oil Industry Hit By Cyber Attacks 115
When Viruses Infect Worms 96
Was Conficker Stuxnet's Trojan? 57
How Tiny Worms Could Help Humans Colonize Mars 101
Inside the Duqu Worm's Source Code 157
New JBOSS Worm Infecting Unpatched Servers 47
How Windows Gets Infected With Malware 373
New Worm Morto Using RDP To Infect Windows PCs 200
Iran Forced To Replace Centrifuges To Stop Stuxnet 204
Conficker Blamed In $72M Scareware Ring 28
Old Worm Digs New Dirt At Pentagon 26
'Worms From Hell' Unearth Possibilities For Extraterrestrial Life 145
Apple Support Forums Suggest Malware Explosion 455
DHS Chief: What We Learned From Stuxnet 125
Malware Declines, Trojans Dominate 79
Financial Malware Hijacks Online Banking Sessions 161
Anonymous Claims Possession of Stuxnet Worm 234
Years-Old Conficker Worm Still a Threat 71
Remote Control Worms With Laser Light, Using FOSS 78
New York Times Reports US and Israel Behind Stuxnet 406
A Finnish-Chinese Connection For Stuxnet? 113
Stuxnet Still Out of Control At Iran Nuclear Sites 361
Iran Admits Stuxnet Affected Their Nuclear Program 211
Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment 334
Man Loses Millions In Bizarre Virus-Protection Scam 366
Stuxnet Worms On 141
Iran Arrests Alleged Spies Over Stuxnet Worm 261
Stuxnet Analysis Backs Iran-Israel Connection 307
Exploits Propagated Via Social Media Increase 28
Gang Arrested For Stealing Millions Using ZeuS 66
Stuxnet Worm Claimed To Be Devastating In Iran 390
Stuxnet Worm May Have Targeted Iranian Reactor 322
Stuxnet Worm Infected Industrial Control Systems 167
Anti-US Hacker Takes Credit For Worm 221
New Email Worm Squirming Through Windows Users' Inboxes 473
25% of Worms Spread Via USB 190
Microsoft To Issue Emergency Fix For Windows .LNK Flaw 112
REMnux, the Malware Analysis Linux OS 58
Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices 288
US Shows Interest In Zombie Quarantine Code 195
Tearing Apart a Hard-Sell Anti-Virus Ad 192
Olympus Digital Camera Ships With a Worm 249
Mobile Game Trojan Calls the South Pole 195
Clickjacking Worm Exploits Facebook "Like" Feature 124
New Russian Botnet Tries To Kill Rivals 136
First Malicious iPhone Worm In the Wild 135
Two Arrested For Zbot Trojan 95
First iPhone Worm Discovered, Rickrolls Jailbroken Phones 215
Test of 16 Anti-Virus Products Says None Rates "Very Good" 344
After 1 Year, Conficker Infects 7M Computers 95
Comcast's War On Infected PCs (Or All Customers) 304
Auto-Detecting Malware? It's Possible 178
Ants Vs. Worms — Computer Security Mimics Nature 104
Wordpress.org Warns of Active Worm Hacking Blogs 103
IE Should Use Google's Malware List 109
Poor Passwords A Worse Problem Than Poor Antivirus 247
Has Conficker Been Abandoned By Its Authors? 174
Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct 501
Twitter Gets Slammed By the StalkDaily XSS Worm 145
Conficker Downloads Payload 273
Microsoft Warns of Copycat Conficker Worm 86
Pinning Down the Spread of Cell Phone Viruses 53
Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In 508
.CA Registrar Trying To Preempt Conficker 227
Researchers Ponder Conficker's April Fool's Activation Date 214
Conficker Worm Asks For Instructions, Gets Update 285
Romanians Find Cure For Conficker 145
New, Stealthy Conficker B++ Worm Discovered 87
New Conficker Variant Increases Its Flexibility 120
Microsoft Slaps $250K Bounty On Conficker Worm 258
OpenDNS To Block and Monitor Conficker Worm 175
Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware 224
Researchers Hijack Storm Worm To Track Profits 128
Asus Ships Eee PCs With Malware 124
Vint Cerf Says It's Every Machine For Itself 82
Computer Virus Aboard the ISS 290
Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data 409
Researchers Tout New Network Worm Weapon 101
Cisco CSO Says Antivirus Money "Completely Wasted" 503
Microsoft Patents 'Proactive' Virus Protection 169
Malware vs. Anti-Malware, 20 Years Into The Fray 62
Why Old SQL Worms Won't Die 64
'Friendly' Worms Could Spread Software Fixes 306
Researchers Say Wi-Fi Virus Outbreak Possible 165
The World's Biggest Botnets 243
Storm Worm Being Reduced to a Squall 183
Most Users Think They Have AntiVirus Protection, While Only Half Do 294
Online Videos May Conduct Viruses 195
Boot Sector Virus Shipped on German Laptops 79
Storm Worm Evolves To Use Tor 182
Anti-Scammers Become Storm Botnet Victims 207
Many Antivirus Tools Fail in LinuxWorld Test 234
Storm Worm Rising 218
Mac Worm Author Gets Death Threats 244
Worm Claimed For Apple OS X 398
The Computer Virus Turns 25 in July 194
The Current State of the Malware/AntiVirus Arms Race 139
China Taking on U.S. in Cyber Arms Race 262
AV Software Isn't Dead, But It's Not Healthy 162
Chinese Hackers Waking up to Malware 65
Worm Exploiting Solaris Telnetd Vulnerability 164
Top Viruses, Worms and Malware in 2006 74
MySpace Phishing Attack Leads Users to Zango Adware 95
A Searchable Virus Database? 44
Microsoft Officially Announces Anti-Virus Product 399
Computer Virus Fells Russian Stock Exchange 133
Kama Sutra Worm Hits Softly 175
Kama Sutra Worm Could Make For A Bad Friday 317
Microsoft Won't Offer Patch Before Worm Strikes? 274
Clock Ticking for Nyxem Virus 72
Stubborn Spyware Removal Advice? 223
Botnet Brain Pleads Guilty 137
20 Years of Computer Viruses 278
Oracle 'Worm' Exploit Modified 87
Businesses Urged To Use Unofficial Windows Patch 374
New IM Worm Exploiting WMF Vulnerability 360
Windows XP Flaw 'Extremely Serious' 630
"Dasher" Worm Brings Christmas Keylogger 114
Sober Code Cracked 303
Sober Attack on 87th Anniversary of the Nazi Party 302
Internet Immunization 229
Slashback: KDE, Tsunami Hacker, and Image Bugs 121
Linux Lupper.Worm In the WIld 363
Fully Automated IM Worms on the Way? 230
Worm With Rootkit Package Loose On AIM 438
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 DoS Exploit 438
Cross-Site Scripting Worm Floods MySpace 321
Name That Worm 80
Are Cell Viruses A Real Threat Now? 72
Dealing With Laptops in a Business Network? 106
Virus Prevention in the Small/Medium Business? 89
Ready For the Big Mac Virus? 560
Anti-Virus Protection For Your Cell Phone 102
Creative MP3 Players Ship With Virus 237
Creative Zens Ship with Worms 354
New Security Ideas From Intel 151
Zotob and Mytob Worm Authors Arrested 363
ZOTOB Not Quite as Bad as Expected? 407
Zotob Worm Hits CNN and Goes Global 522
MS05-039 Worm in the Wild 252
Worms Could Dodge Net traps 58
Windows Vista Tool Targeted By Virus Writers 293
Car Computer Systems at Risk to Viruses 42
Spyware Removal: Drop PC in Dumpster 705
German Youth Convicted for Sasser Worm 421
Windows 24 Hr Vulnerabilty Patch - Would It Help? 70
Creator of Sasser Worm Goes on Trial 350
The 12-minute Windows Heist 497
What is the Best Firewall for Servers? 673
Symantec's AntiVirus 10 Deployment Woes? 102
The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense 100
Britney is #1 Virus Celebrity 275
Schneier on Attack Trends: More Complex Worms 189
CA Warns Of Massive Botnet Attack 357
Witty Worm Kick-Start Methods Revealed 150
Microsoft Begins anti-virus Software Development 199
What Does a Spreading Worm Look Like? 233
Testing Out Cell-Phone Viruses on a Prius 196
Stopping Unstoppable Malware? 155
Cell Phone Virus Threat Overblown 160
Sober.P Worm Accounts for 5% of all Email Traffic 451
Handling Viruses in an Uncontrolled Network? 579
Major Aussie ISP Disconnecting Trojaned PCs 388
Mabir.A Virus Targets Symbian Phones 199
Free, Near-Foolproof Way to Evade Windows Spyware 72
First PC Virus Spreads to Humans 231
Has Mass-Mailed Malware Peaked? 221
Over a Million Zombie PCs 564
First Symbian OS virus to replicate over MMS 179
Louisiana Man Pleads Guilty to Creating 911 Worm 365
Teen Sentenced for Releasing Variant of Blaster Worm 438
Worm Hits Windows Machines Running MySQL 367
Running Windows Viruses Under Linux 361
Lexus Computers Infected Via Bluetooth 339
MyDoom Strikes Again 254
Inside the Mind of a Virus Writer 231
Anti-Santy Worm Patches phpBB Flaw 245
Computer Viruses Broke 100,000 In 2004 214
'Metal Gear' Symbian OS Trojan Disables Anti-Virus 197
Net Worm Uses Google to Spread 309
Penn State Tells Students To Ditch IE 486
Clean System to Zombie Bot in Four Minutes 608
Malware: Fighting Malicious Code 95
Worm Exploit Distributed by Advertising Network 478
Can Reverse Engineering Help In Stopping Worms? 187
Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw 435
Using Layered Defenses to Stop Internet Worms 148
Russian Denies Writing SoBig Worm 67
So, Who Wrote Sobig? 187
MyDoom Seeks to Destroy Antivirus Firms 284
New IM Worm On The Loose 407
Inside The First Pocket PC Trojan 8
Assessing Internet Viruses Like Human Epidemics 171
New Worm Installs Sniffer 491
German Teen Charged with Creating Sasser 325
Day in the Life of the Internet Storm Center 123
HP Shelves Virus Throttler Program 277
Peeping Tom Worm That Uses Webcams 388
Blaster Variant Creator Pleads Guilty 373