If you have a Twitter account, you may have “people” that follow you with what are suspiciously fake accounts. The tell-tale signs are standard: thousands of followers with barely any (if even one) tweets, tweets that contain lots of links …

Animal rights activists are using a highly controversial Android app to get out their message. Apparently, opponents of the “Dog Wars” app have modified an older version of the app to include a specific trojan code. The malware, which Symantec …

Trojan Horse: GoGap via Flickr

Online attacks focused on exploiting renewed controversy over the Tibet situation by delivering malware to visitors of sites favoring Tibetan separatist efforts.

Police in Kyoto have arrested three men, who were involved in a plot to infect users of the P2P file-sharing network Winny with a Trojan horse that displayed images of anime characters while erasing music and movie files.

The malware called Harada is thought to be connected to the Pirlames Trojan horse which anti-spam firm Sophos reported blocking in Japan last year. The three men have admitted they took part in the crime. One man wrote the malware, while the other two are thought to have distributed the malicious code through Winny.

A Trojan that arrives by email targets potential car buyers at eBay Motors, and attempts to closely imitate a legitimate auction.

A new threat against visitors to eBay Motors from a Trojan attempts to use a man in the middle attack that seems to do more than just phish a username and password from people.

Though uses for Java continue to expand, the threats do as well. Kaspersky Labs reported a Trojan called RedBrowser making the rounds, targeting Java capable cell phones. While this Trojan is annoying, it easily stopped.

Mac and Linux users aren’t used to turning on the news and hearing about security threats that affect us.

An Indian web publisher claims a Trojan program that replaces Google ads with a different set of ads has been found in the wild.

A fake update to the Skype VoIP client has been circulating via email, and installs an IRC bot on victims’ computers.

Trojans are not just more dangerous than computer viruses, they’re stealthier, too. Find out where they hide.

The Trojan Horse got its name from the old mythical story about how the Greeks gave their enemy a huge wooden horse as a gift during the war.

The latest example of a loathsome hacker taking advantage of a news story to disperse a computer virus has been found in the wild.

It isn’t always easy to tell if your computer has become infected with a virus or similar anti-social piece of software.

Businesses in the U.K. face a sophisticated series of targeted Trojan e-mail attacks originating from somewhere in Asia.

The latest trick on the “lets mess up people’s computers” front is also an exercise in extraordinarily bad taste. On Thursday, British security firm, Sophos labs picked on Trojan horse packed into an email posing as a suicide note for the pop singer.

A malicious e-mail purporting to announce a suicide attempt by pop star Michael Jackson contains a link to a malware site.

Never before with Instant Messaging (IM) has a more vital warning been needed for current and potential IM buddies who chat online.

Yesterday, news broke of a malicious Trojan virus, called Troj/BankAsh-A, which targets Microsoft’s AntiSpyware beta tool.

Every time Microsoft attempts to secure a product, another one seems to come under attack.

Quesiton: I am using MS Windows Pro on a laptop with Intel 850Mhz and 256MB RAM connected to the Internet using cable. Using Norton Personal Internet Security.

I was cleaning up some messages in my inbox (Outlook Express). I tried to delete a message from “MAILER-DAEMON@mail09b.bellsouth-hosting.net” the subject failure notice. Each time I clicked on it my computer froze and I got the message that the program was not responding and had the option to end now or cancel. Cancel never did anything but End Now would close Outlook Express. Then a little while after that I noticed on my Internet security several messages that said “rule default block backdoor/subseven trojan horse matched.” Could this be connected? What should I do?

Thanks,
Matthew F. Grandalski