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• Tumblr worm proliferated due to XSS flaw

  04.12.2012

  Yesterday's worm rampage that left many a Tumblr site "defaced" with a message by Internet troll group GNAA was the result of improper input sanitation.

• Agressive worm infection leads to banking Trojan infection

  30.11.2012

  An aggressive variant of the VBNA-X "autorun" worm is finding its way onto users' computers, preparing them for further malicious downloads, warns Sophos.

• Malware targeting Skype missed a trick

  16.10.2012

  Last week reports came out stating that the Dorkbot worm is now targeting Skype users.

• AV-killing worm spreads via Facebook chat and IM clients

  30.08.2012

  A rather industrious piece of malware that - among other things - paves the way for other malware by disabling AV solutions and software update modules has been spotted spreading via several Instant Messaging applications (ICQ, Skype, GTalk, Pidgin, MSN, YIM) and Facebook: The victims receive a message from an unknown user, offering a link to a funny or interesting video.

• Scareware targets users infected with industrial espionage worm

  16.07.2012

  ACAD/Medre.A, a worm that steals AutoCAD drawings and sends them to remote servers, was recently discovered infecting a great number of computers in Peru and some other Latin American countries.

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