A new Trojan is doing the rounds, using the promise of pornographic pictures in an attempt to take over a user’s PC. Anyone foolish enough to open the attachment will not find what they are looking for, however, as it actually contains a malicious program that will allow their PC to be taken over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Security firm Sophos said that a great many copies of the message have been circulating by email.<\/p>\n
Even though Sysbug is unlikely to become a major security threat, IT managers need to be alert as any one of their staff could make the mistake of opening the attachment.<\/p>\n
Kevin Hogan from Symantec’s Security Response team told silicon.com’s sister site ZDNet UK that the Trojan is unlikely to spread much further because it does not self-replicate.<\/p>\n
“I don’t see it getting worse because it relies on manual spamming – unless they re-spam it,” he said.<\/p>\n
Cluley recommends that companies work on user awareness of these risks, and also implement a combined anti-spam and antivirus product at their gateway.<\/p>\n
Sysbug comes just months after another virus that claimed to be compromising pictures of Hollywood star Julia Roberts.<\/p>\n
[Editor Note: Yes, we are protected]<\/p>\n
More info: [url=http:\/\/www.silicon.com\/software\/security\/0,39024655,39117071,00.htm]http:\/\/www.silicon.com\/software\/security\/0,39024655,39117071,00.htm[\/url]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4798,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/4798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}