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Brontok originated in Indonesia. It was first discovered in 2005. The name refers to elang brontok, a bird species native to South & Southeast Asia. It arrives as an attachment of e-mail named kangen.exe (kangen itself means "to miss someone/thing"). The virus/email itself contains a message in Indonesian (and some English).
Tiny Banker Trojan, also called Tinba, is a malware program that targets financial institution websites. It is a modified form of an older form of viruses known as Banker Trojans, yet it is much smaller in size and more powerful. It works by establishing man-in-the-browser attacks and network sniffing. Since its discovery, it has been found to ...
Late March: Brontok variant N was found in late March. Brontok was a mass-email worm and the origin for the worm was from Indonesia. June: Starbucks is a virus that infects StarOffice and OpenOffice. Late September: Stration or Warezov worm first discovered. Development of Stuxnet is presumed to have been started between 2005 and 2006. 2007
Triton is malware first discovered at a Saudi Arabian petrochemical plant in 2017. [1] [2] It can disable safety instrumented systems, which can then contribute to a plant disaster. It has been called "the world's most murderous malware." [3]
ZitMo: This malware was identified in 2010. An abbreviation of Zeus-In-The-Mobile, it is a trojan that is suggested for installation on a mobile phone by a Zeus -infected computer, and redirects incoming SMSs by acting like a man-in-the-mobile. It was the first mobile malware designed to steal mTAN banking codes. [26]
Yang Dan ( Chinese: 丹扬; pinyin: Dān Yáng) is a Chinese-American neuroscientist. She is the Paul Licht Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator. [1] She is a past recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Beckman Young ...
The CDC says there's no evidence humans can easily infect each other with bird flu, and the risk to the general public remains low right now. The CDC has documented three human cases of H5N1 bird ...
Paramyxoviridae. Paramyxoviridae (from Greek para- “by the side of” and myxa “ mucus ”) is a family of negative-strand RNA viruses in the order Mononegavirales. [1] [2] Vertebrates serve as natural hosts. [3] Diseases associated with this family include measles, mumps, and respiratory tract infections. [4]