Although the Trojan known as “Delf-DH” was originally spotted by Microsoft security experts more than six months ago, news surfaced this week that initial prevention methods failed to realize the malicious software’s full potential.
AOL instant messenger users have been hit recently with a trojan, the company announced, and a select number of AIM screen names have been suspended as a result.
The amount of spam traveling around the Internet is set to reach record levels thanks to the introduction of a new Trojan horse, according to spam tracking service SpamHaus.
A string of European websites transmitted malicious code to visitors over the course of approximately six hours this weekend after banner ads and advertising servers became infected with Bofra/IFrame code exploits, according to SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center.
Virus and spam fighting solution provider Sophos has announced the discovery of a new Trojan horse, dubbed Troj/Delf-IT, which seems to primarily be infecting visitors to hardcore pornographic websites.
Apple Computer Inc. says it may be too soon to tell whether Mac users could be targeted in the first malicious Trojan horse program to hit the 3-year-old OS X operating system. The program is embedded inside an MP3 music file, according to Intego, a maker of security and privacy software for Apple.
