{"id":491,"date":"2003-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/12\/04\/most-virulent-worms-of-november\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:37:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:37:28","slug":"most-virulent-worms-of-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/12\/04\/most-virulent-worms-of-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Most virulent worms of November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The roundup of antivirus infections for November has shown a busy month for MiMail variants, but Klez H is still hanging in the top 10 after almost two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is the usual dispute over which virus is most common, but the Sober and Swen worms have scored highly.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sober has had a big impact because it&#8217;s in English and German and many Germans don&#8217;t expect viruses in their own language,&#8221; said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re also seeing new MiMail viruses cropping up and there seems to be organised  intent behind it; the authors have targeted users and anti-spam websites.  So far 12 MiMail variants have been found, ranging from simple email harvesters to &#8216;phishing&#8217; attacks that seek users&#8217; PayPal or bank details.  The worm is thought to have originated in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Klez H is still in most charts, making it one of the most persistent viruses in history.<\/p>\n<p>More info: [url=http:\/\/www.infomaticsonline.co.uk\/News\/1151236]http:\/\/www.infomaticsonline.co.uk\/News\/1151236[\/url]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}