Users of instant messaging applications from Yahoo Inc. and America Online Inc. are being warned this week of two new threats spreading via instant messaging. The first is a worm targeting AOL’s ...

After releasing a version of the Mimail e-mail worm last week, virus authors are using a tool this week to help it spread: spam e-mail containing a Trojan horse program that, once installed, retrieves ...

A new e-mail worm is spreading on the Internet and posing as a message from PayPal Inc., the online payment company, in an effort to harvest credit card numbers and account passwords, leading ...

Internet users are being targeted by scams using the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster as a ploy to obtain funds illegally or to spread damaging worms. On Monday, FBI agents arrested a Pittsburgh, Pa. man ...

Users of instant messaging (IM) applications from Yahoo and America Online (AOL) are being warned this week of two new threats spreading via IM. The first is a worm targeting AOL’s Instant Messenger ...

The Happy New Year worm that caused mild alarm toward the end of last year now appears to be nothing more than a high-profile stock-manipulation scam. Panda Software reports the Nuwar.B worm variant ...