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New Buzus Distribution Campaign Generates Wave of Fake Emails Security researchers from antivirus vendor Sophos warn of a new wave of emails distributing a new variant of the Buzus malware, which masquerade as official communications from major websites.Some of the rogue emails pose as a job application response from Google and purport to come from a resume-thanks@google.com ad... 24 January 2011 12:59 GMT New Worm Propagates via Fake Emails Allegedly Sent by Large Websites Security researchers warn than a new variant of a computer worm sends itself attached to fake emails that appear to originate from Google, Facebook, Twitter, hi5, Amazon or Hallmark.The rogue messages have different subjects, content and attachment names, depending on which company they purport to be sent from.For ex... 8 October 2010 06:55 GMT Malware Distribution Service Gets Autorun Upgrade Security researchers from Sophos are warning that the Virtumondo computer trojan, which serves as a malware-distribution service, is now infecting computers via the Autorun feature. It makes its way onto USB sticks and other removable media devices with the help of a separate autorun worm. Virtumondo, also known as ... 19 March 2009 05:37 GMT