Neowin News Feed for: Infected

ATMs are 'spitting out' cash after being infected with malware

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:22:01 +0000

Security researchers and ATM manufacturers are warning that attackers have managed to compromise ATMs and are stealing money after they force the devices to 'spit out' cash. Read more...

One in Five PCs Infected With Rootkits

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:09:53 +0000

Malware researchers at Prevx have highlighted what they are calling a 'massive growth' in the number of PCs harboring rootkit infections. More than 725,000 PCs were scanned using the Prevx CSI malware scanner over a... Read more...

Seagate warns of infected drives

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:20:06 +0000

Seagate is warning users to scan their systems for malware after a password-stealing Trojan was found on some of its hard drives. The vendor said that the malware was discovered on the Maxtor Basics Personal... Read more...

HP Mistakenly Distributes Drivers Infected with Virus

Christopher Vendemio — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:08:36 +0000

Hewlett-Packard yesterday pulled a printer driver from its Web site after security vendor BitDefender reported that the software was infected with the same computer virus that infected HP's drivers more than five years ago. A... Read more...

AOL Most Infected Web Network, company states

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:13:34 +0000

Prolexic, a provider of security consulting products, has claimed that Deutsche Telecom, Wanadoo and AOL are Europe's top three internet providers for harboring infected PCs The primary attack of choice in the begginning... Read more...

Bagle Variant Exacts a 'Price' with Infected Zip Files

Mon, 09 Aug 2004 23:27:43 +0000

Another variant of the ubiquitous Bagle worm is now making its way across the Internet, flooding in-boxes with infected Zip files. The newest member of the Bagle family, named Bagle.AQ, arrives via an e-mail message... Read more...

Virus writers flog infected IP addresses to spammers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:39:32 +0000

GERMAN MAG c't said it has evidence to suggest that virus writers are selling the addresses of computers infected with trojans to spammers. The magazine says it managed to track down the authors of a... Read more...

Linux download site hacked, infected

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:05:39 +0000

The download site for two very common Linux based utilities, tcpdump.org, was hacked into on Nov. 11, and the software available for download was modified to contain Trojan Horse code. This Trojan... Read more...

MSN localized sites infected with Trojan

Steven Parker — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:34:12 +0000

Cheers Redmak and Kheldar our field investigators in Europe discovered just moments ago that most of MSN's localized sites appear to be infected with a trojan! By browsing to msn.co.uk or .nl or... Read more...

Thousands of idiots still infected by SirCam

Steven Parker — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 10:45:57 +0000

The Nimda worm might be the worst virus at the desktop level but SirCam continues to be the most widely circulated email-borne virus. That's the conclusion we draw from September statistics on... Read more...