It’s natural for viruses to mutate in nature and become stronger over time. The scary thing is that it’s now happening to computer viruses. Mutating viruses are nothing new, they are used to infect machines in a way that can’t …

The New York Times reported yesterday on a powerful “web gang” that have been pocketing millions of dollars from unsuspecting web surfers using a worm dubbed “Koobface” (an anagram of “Facebook”). Apparently, it is known who they are. It is …

Spam comprised 95 percent of all email traffic in 2007 according to anti-spam company SpamStopsHere.

Spammers experimented with attaching encoded messages in a variety of file formats including MP3, Zip, Excel, Word and PDF. MP3 spam proved to be short lived. Spammers attached MP3 files named after popular songs and artists. When a recipient opened the attachment an electronic voice delivered a message promoting a stock for a particular company.

One of the most prolific worms in recent memory has been seen in connection with spam that purports to be from a friend who wants you to see a YouTube video.

MySpace hooks the phising sites by removing the worm from user profiles.

TechCrunch is reporting that third-party MySpace widgets such as those by the ever popular YouTube are no longer allowed to have link throughs.

Users of instant messaging systems MSN, AIM, ICQ, and Yahoo could get smacked with a worm that entices people to click on a link to Santa Claus.

The scheme used by the virus writer behind the Sober worms to determine where it will connect on the Internet has been cracked by the Finnish security firm.

The ever-popular Sober worm is making the rounds again in a new and exciting format. The ugly little worm is circulating through email and it looks all nice and official because someone is receiving email from either the FBI or the CIA. Many may ask what they’ve done wrong to warrant attention from the FBI or CIA. Nothing much really you just happen to have an email account.

FaceTime Security Labs reported that a variant of the Sdbot worm has been making the rounds on AIM via chats and instant messaging.

Philipp writes about the worm that caused Samy to be a hero, and helped him gather a million friends.

Another worm that modifies the hosts file redirects queries sent to Google, MSN, or Yahoo to spoofed versions of those pages.

PandaLabs has discovered a worm that imitates Google’s homepage, retrieves search results the same way, but changes the sponsored links to the sites of the worm author’s choosing. Can you say, “evil genius,” boys and girls? I knew you could.

A worm targeting Windows operating systems hides in a file named itunes.exe, and will try distributing itself over AIM.

His motive was to gain fame as a programmer. Fame is what the German teen got, as well as arrested for creating one of the most effective computer worms in history.

A 19 year-old German, Sven Jaschan, has confessed to writing the Sasser worm that affected millions of computers last year.

Security researchers urge users and administrators to update antivirus signature files and verify their systems have been patched.

The mass-mailing worm spewing thousands of hate mail messages has been stopped, according to German security researchers.

Be on the lookout for Hey Check Out This instant messages appearing in your AIM client today.

A variant of the Sober worm has been appearing as an enticement to fans seeking World Cup tickets.

Microsoft’s MSN Messenger is the latest in a long line of applications to be targeted by virus writers.

In what is being termed as a “potential epidemic,” virus writers are planning on targeting attacks at mobile communication devices.