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Zeus
Zeus is a Trojan horse made to infect Windows computers so that it will perform various criminal tasks. The most common of these tasks are usually man-in-the-browser keylogging and form grabbing. The majority of computers were infected either through drive-by downloads or phishing scams. First identified in 2009, it managed to compromise thousands of FTP accounts and computers from large multinational corporations and banks such as Amazon, Oracle, Bank of America, Cisco, etc. Controllers of the Zeus botnet used it to steal the login credentials of social network, email and banking accounts.


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In the US alone, it was estimated that more than 1 million computers were infected, with 25% in the US. The entire operation was sophisticated, involving people from around the world to act as money mules to smuggle and transfer cash to the ringleaders in Eastern Europe. About $70 million were stolen and in possession of the ring. 100 people were arrested in connection of the operation. In late 2010, the creator of Zeus announced his retirement but many experts believe this to be false.

The Anna Kournikova worm

The Anna Kournikova worm posed as a picture of the tennis player, but was in fact a virus written by Jan de Wit, an obsessed admirer from the Netherlands. He ended up receiving a community service sentence.

The Blaster Worm

The Blaster worm launched a denial of service attack against Microsoft's website in 2003, and infected millions of computers around the world by exploiting a security hole in Microsoft's software. Its author has never been found.

Conficker

The Virus

Launched in 2008
Took advantage of an exploit in Windows 2000, XP, 2003 servers that could cause them to install an unauthenticated file
It could even affect servers with firewalls, as long as they had print and file sharing enabled
Infected millions of computers
Spread by infected USB drives and over networks
Later variants were capable of:
Disabling anti-malware programs
Creating backdoors in firewalls
Communicating with other infected machines via peer-to-peer networks
Conficker was supposed to do something on April 1, 2009, but nothing happened
Experts were worried computers infected with Conficker would possibly:
Become a botnet
Create a criminal version of a search engine, copying private information from infected systems and then selling that information
Launch massive DDoS attacks

The Damage

Caused $9.1 billion in damages
French fighter planes were grounded when they couldn’t download their flight plans
In England, military systems were infected, including:
More than two dozen British Royal Air Force bases
75% of the Royal Navy fleet
The Manchester City Council IT system went down, rendering the city unable to process fines
Computers and medical devices at hospitals in the US and the UK were infected
While the majority of these viruses are no longer the threats they once were, there are still many viruses on the Internet and more being created every day. To avoid getting infected, remember these tips: Update your antivirus software often, download OS patches when they come out, and don’t open untrustworthy files.

MyDoom

The Virus

Launched in 2004
Originally began spreading through KaZaA, a file-sharing application, but then spread to emails
In both cases, users had to open a file in order to become infected
At its peak, MyDoom infected one in 12 emails as it tried to spread itself
Computers infected with MyDoom would launch a DDoS on www.sco.com (a Linux softare company)
The virus would also open ports on victims’ computers so that hackers would have backdoor access to their systems
A second attack later that year affected search engines
MyDoom-infected computers would send search requests to search engines in an attempt to find email addresses
Some search engines received so many requests that they crashed
MyDoom was capable of spoofing its infection emails, making it more difficult to track
“Spoofing” involves forging the “From” address in an email
Infected between 600,000 and 700,000 computers

The Damage

Caused $38 billion in damages
McAfee reported that MyDoom:
Slowed down Internet access worldwide by 10 percent
Reduced access to some websites by as much as 50 percent

Sasser

The Virus

Launched in 2004
Created by Sven Jaschan, a 17-year-old from Germany
Sasser worked by exploiting a vulnerability in a Windows system called LSASS (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service)
The virus scanned IP addresses until it found one that was vulnerable
Then it downloaded itself into the Windows directory
The next time the computer was booted up, it would be infected
Sasser also affected the operating system
This made shutting down infected computers without pulling the plug difficult.
The virus affected Windows 2000 and XP
Unlike other viruses, users didn’t have to open any email attachments in order to be infected by Sasser; they only need to be online

The Damage

Caused $500 million in damages
Infected all 19 of the British Coastguard’s control rooms
Staff had to use paper maps and pens
Delayed British Airways flights
Sasser brought down a third of Taiwan’s post offices
Sven Jaschan was sentenced to:
1 year, 9 months’ probation
30 hours of community service
He was tried as a junior

SQL Slammer/Sapphire

The Virus

Launched in 2003
Spread through a buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft’s SQL Server database management service
Randomly selected IP addresses to infect
Servers infected with SQL Slammer would spawn millions of copies to infect other servers
Within 3 minutes of attacking its first victim, the number of servers infected by Slammer doubled every 8.5 seconds

The Damage

Caused $750 million in damages
Crashed Bank of America’ ATM service
A number of other banks were affected by the virus
Caused outages to Seattle’s 911 service
Infected Continental Airlines online ticketing systems and electronic kiosks, rendering them inoperable
Several newspapers had publishing problems, including:
The Atlanta Journal Constitution
The Associated Press
The Philadelphia Inquirer
US Government websites affected included:
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Defense Department
Alfred Huger, from Symantec Security Response, reported that SQL Slammer caused network issues over the entire Internet
South Korea lost almost all Internet access
70% of homes at the time were connected to the web

Nimda

The Virus

Launched in September 2001, one week after 9/11
The FBI had to refute rumors that the virus was connected to the terrorist attack
Nimda is “admin” spelled backwards
In Computerworld Magazine, TruSecure CTO Peter Tippett reported that Nimda topped their list of viruses in just 22 minutes
The virus was the fastest spreading piece of malware at the time
More than 2 million computers were infected in 24 hours
While the virus could infect home PCs, its primary target was web servers
The virus infected computers in a variety of ways:
Local networks
Email
Drive-by downloads on websites
Loopholes created by other worms
Vulnerabilities in IIS (Internet Information Server), Microsoft’s web server
Nimda allowed attackers to have the same access to an infected machine as the current user
If a user had admin-level privileges, so would the hacker
Nimda would install itself to the root of drives C, D, and E
It would also replicate itself in any folder where it found .doc or .eml files

The Damages

Caused $635 million in losses
A Florida Federal court had to operate using paper copies of all of their documents when their system was infected with a Nimda variant
The virus spread so quickly that it significantly slowed Internet browsing times and crashed several networks

Code Red

The Virus

Code Red launched in July 2001
A second version of the virus, Code Red II, acted similarly and was launched later in the year
It infected Windows NT and 2000 machines by exploiting a buffer overload vulnerability
Works by sending the computer instructions after a long string of nonsense
Once the buffer has been filled with the nonsense information, the computer begins overwriting memory
The memory is overwritten with the instructions for the virus
This meant that the user only had to be connected to the Internet to be infected
Infected Windows NT machines would crash more often than normal
Infected Windows 2000 machines would suffer a system-level compromise
This means that the computer could be entirely controlled by the hacker
The virus would behave differently depending on a few factors:
The date:
1st-19th: Target random IP addresses and spread the virus
20th-28th: Launch a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack on the White House’s IP address
29th and after: Go into “sleep” mode
Page language:
English-language web pages would be defaced with the words “Hacked by Chinese!”
Microsoft released a patch to fix the vulnerability exploited by the virus several months before the attack

The Damage

In less than a day, the virus infected more than 359,000 computer systems
Caused over $2 billion in losses
Between 1 and 2 million computers were infected overall
CAIDA (the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis) found that of those hosts infected by Code Red:
91% were from the US
57% were from Korea

ILOVEYOU

The Virus

Launched from the Philippines in 2000
Allegedly written by Onel de Guzman
Typically spread through an infected email attachment
The email’s subject line would say that it was a love letter from a secret admirer
The name of the original file was “LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs”
.vbs is a Visual Basic Scripting file
Due to formatting issues, some email clients omitted the “.vbs” in the file name
This caused users to think they were opening a plain text file
The virus would:
Overwrite file types with copies of itself to let it continue spreading if the original version was removed from the computer
This erased a number of different files, including:
JPEG
MP3
VPOS
JS
JSE
CSS
WSH
SCT
HTA
Reset the infected computer’s Internet Explorer home page
Send the infected file to all of the user’s contacts in Microsoft Outlook
Download and execute a file that stole passwords and emailed them to the hacker’s email address
If the user entered a chat group with Internet Relay Chat, the virus would attempt to spread to all other users in the group

The Damage

Roughly one tenth of all Internet-connected computers in 2000 were infected with ILOVEYOU
The virus caused an estimated $15 billion in damages
It caused $5.5 billion in damages in the first week
ILOVEYOU reached an estimated 45 million people in one day
McAfee reported that a supermajority of their Fortune 100 clients were infected with the virus
Onel de Guzman was arrested on suspicion of creating the virus
He and his co-conspirator were later released as the Philippines had no laws at the time against writing malware

Melissa

The Virus

Created in 1999 by David L. Smith
He claimed to have named the virus after an exotic dancer in Florida
One of the first email-activated viruses
The virus was a Microsoft Word macro
A macro is a series of commands or instructions that gets carried out automatically
It affected users with Microsoft Word 97 and 2000 by:
Shutting down safeguards in those programs
Lowering security settings
Disabling macro security
The virus spread itself by sending an infected document via email
The email was designed to trick people into opening the file
Computers which had Microsoft Outlook would send the infected document to the top 50 contacts in the users’ address books
If the day of the month matched the minute, the virus would insert a Bart Simpson quote into the document it sent:
“Twenty-two points, plus triple-word score, plus fifty points for using all my letters. Game’s over. I’m outta here.”

The Damage

Tens of thousands of people couldn’t access their emails within six hours of the virus being posted
Hundreds of websites were affected
The Microsoft Corporation had to disable all incoming and outgoing email
Caused $1.2 billion in damages and losses
David L. Smith was:
Fined $5,000
Sentenced to 20 months in jail
Forbidden from accessing computer networks without court authorization

Since the very first computer virus spread like wildfire by infecting floppy disks, viruses have gone on to cause millions in damages across the globe.
The first computer virus, called the “Elk Cloner,” was created as a teenager’s harmless prank, displaying random messages to users and played subtle tricks when the infected floppy disk was booted.
But since then, many different types of viruses have been created. Some, like the Elk Cloner, can be annoying but harmless to your computer. Others can do actual damage and end up costing you money due to wasting computer resources, causing system failures, corrupting or deleting your data, or even stealing your private information.
It’s difficult to count the actual number of viruses in existence because everyone defines new viruses and categorizes them differently.

Source

1. http://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/2015/06/01/8-worst-viruses/
2. http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/famous-malicious-computer-viruses/
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The Magpies came close to beating Chelsea but surrendered a two goal lead, though the Dutch defender is hopeful of getting something against Manuel Pellegrini's men
Daryl Janmaat insists Newcastle United will visit Manchester City without fear as Steve McClaren's men seek a first Premier League victory of the campaign.

McClaren went into last Saturday's game with Chelsea under significant pressure having seen his side tumble out of the League Cup at the hands of Championship side Sheffield Wednesday three days earlier.

Newcastle responded with a strong performance against the defending Premier League champions, with Ayoze Perez and Georginio Wijnaldum giving them a 2-0 lead before Ramires and Willian ensured a share of the spoils for Chelsea.

That result keeps Newcastle in the bottom three with just three points to their name and it is unlikely to get any easier for the Tyneside club at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.

Newcastle won 2-0 at City in the League Cup last season but their last away league win came in September 2000 at Maine Road, with their previous three visits seeing them concede 13 goals without reply.

However, with City having lost their last two league matches and surrendered top spot to Manchester United, Newcastle can afford to at least have some hope of ending that barren run.

Right-back Janmaat said: "It's important to go there on Saturday with nothing to fear. City started the season brilliantly, but maybe they are struggling a little bit more at the moment with a couple of defeats in the league.

"Hopefully the result and performance against Chelsea has answered a few questions. If we play like we did against them, I don't think anyone would be wanting to play us, including City."

Steven Taylor (hamstring), Massadio Haidara (knee), Paul Dummett (hamstring) and Emmanuel Riviere (knee) are all unavailable for Newcastle. Jack Colback (knock) and Rolando Aarons (calf) are also doubts but Cheick Tiote and Papiss Cisse are back in training.

City captain Vincent Kompany is out with a calf problem and Yaya Toure is unlikely to be risked with a hamstring issue.

David Silva is to be assessed after making his return from a calf complaint in the 2-1 Champions League win over Borussia Monchengladbach on Wednesday.

Eliaquim Mangala (muscle), Gael Clichy (ankle), Fabian Delph (hamstring), Samir Nasri and Kelechi Iheanacho (knocks) are all sidelined for the hosts, who required a last-gasp Sergio Aguero penalty to see off Gladbach.

Goalkeeper Joe Hart was not satisfied with City's performance in Germany but is hopeful it can be used as a springboard for a return to form.

Hart said: "The win is important and we really need to improve, but as badly as we played I think we still deserved to win. We need to get back to the first five games of the Premier League, where we were more of a balanced team.

"But the season is a long season, so you have got different stages. Hopefully that will put us in a good place for the Newcastle game."

United aim to bounce back against Wolfsburg.
Manchester United FC will bid to get their first points on the board in Group B when they host a VfL Wolfsburg side seeking a change of fortune on English soil.

Manchester United FC will try again to get their first points on the board in UEFA Champions League Group B when they host VfL Wolfsburg on matchday two.

• Man. United suffered a 2-1 loss at PSV Eindhoven on matchday one, but Wolfsburg made a positive start with a 1-0 home victory over PFC CSKA Moskva.

Previous meetings
• This latest encounter falls precisely six years ago to the day since the first – when United overturned an Edin Džeko goal (56) at Old Trafford to win 2-1 through Ryan Giggs (58) and Michael Carrick (78).

• The lineups for that group stage match on 30 September 2009 were:
United: Kuszczak, O'Shea, Ferdinand, Vidić, Evra, Valencia (Fletcher 82), Anderson, Carrick, Giggs, Owen (Berbatov 20), Rooney.
Wolfsburg: Benaglio, Riether, Costa, Madlung, Schäfer, Hasebe (Ziani 73), Josué, Misimović, Gentner, Džeko, Grafite (Martins 82).

• Džeko struck again in the return on 8 December but Michael Owen scored a hat-trick as group winners United prevailed 3-1 to consign the Bundesliga side to third place in the section.

Man. United
• United are unbeaten in their last six home fixtures in UEFA competition (five wins, one draw), including the 3-1 success against Club Brugge KV in August's play-off round.

• When United last hosted a German team at Old Trafford – Bayern in the 2013/14 quarter-finals – Bastian Schweinsteiger hit the visitors' goal in a 1-1 draw. United had begun that campaign with a 4-2 win over Bayer 04 Leverkusen in which Wayne Rooney (two) and Antonio Valencia found the net.

• Their overall home record against sides from Germany is W8 D4 L2.

• This is the first time United have entered their second game of a UEFA Champions League campaign without a point since 1996/97, when they started with a 1-0 loss at Juventus.

Wolfsburg
• Wolfsburg's only defeat in six away matches in the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League was in the north-west of England – a 4-1 reverse at Everton FC on 18 September 2014. Ricardo Rodriguez got the Wolfsburg goal.

• Wolfsburg have scored on all three of their previous visits to England but lost every time.

• Diego Benaglio and Marcel Schäfer played in Wolfsburg's first meeting with a Premier League club – a 3-2 home triumph over Portsmouth FC in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup group stage.

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Manchester United and Manchester City were rewarded with home draws in the fourth round of the Capital One Cup.

Louis van Gaal's side will host Championship side Middlesbrough having eased past Ipswich 3-0 at Old Trafford on Wednesday night.
Manchester City will welcome Crystal Palace to the Etihad Stadium, while Sheffield Wednesday's reward for beating Newcastle United is a home game against Arsenal, 2-1 conquerors of Tottenham at White Hart Lane.There are four other all Premier League ties with Everton playing Norwich, Southampton paired with Aston Villa and Stoke hosting the holders Chelsea.

Liverpool suffered an almighty scare against League Two Carlisle - squeezing through 3-2 on on penalties at Anfield after it finished 1-1 after extra-time. They will now host Bournemouth in the next round.

Fourth round draw

Manchester City v Crystal Palace

Liverpool v Bournemouth

Manchester United v Middlesbrough

Everton v Norwich

Southampton v Aston Villa

Sheffield Wednesday v Arsenal

Hull v Leicester

Stoke v Chelsea

Ties to be played week commencing October 26.

Manchester United will be seeking an improved showing in the competition after being humbled by Milton Keynes Dons in the second round of last season's competition. But Ipswich Town, who have made a decent start to their Championship campaign, will provide a stern test for whichever Reds XI takes to the field this week. These sides last met in the 2001/02 league season, when United won 4-0 at home and 1-0 at Portman Road.

Form guide: United are second in the Barclays Premier League table after bouncing back from the Champions League setback in Eindhoven by winning 3-2 at Southampton on Sunday. Louis van Gaal will be keen to maintain that momentum with victory in the first of three successive home games in three different competitions for his side, with Sunderland and Wolfsburg also visiting Old Trafford before September is out. Ipswich were held 1-1 at home by Birmingham City on Friday and, though they were also thumped 5-1 at Reading a fortnight ago, the Tractor Boys sit in fifth in the fledgling Championship table. They've already beaten Stevenage and Doncaster Rovers to reach this stage of the League Cup.

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The Hammers have already won at Arsenal and Liverpool and are hoping to inflict a first Premier League defeat of the season on Manuel Pellegrini's men
Sergio Aguero is expected to be back fit for Manchester City's Premier League clash with West Ham, but that is not stopping Slaven Bilic from plotting a potential third shock away win of the season.

Aguero was reduced to the role of an 83rd-minute substitute in City's 2-1 Champions League defeat to Juventus on Tuesday because of a knee problem.

The Argentina international striker did not aggravate the injury in midweek, leaving City manager Manuel Pellegrini hopeful that Aguero - who netted 32 goals in all competitions last season - will be able to play to feature heavily in Saturday's game.

Pellegrini said: "It was a risk to use him [Aguero]. I tried not to because if he got a kick in the same part it could take him more days to recover.

"Fortunately he did not have any problems and I hope he will be fit for Saturday."

Leaders City, who are four points clear at the top, are the only team with a 100 per cent record remaining in the Premier League, having taken maximum points from their first five games, scoring 11 goals and yet to concede in the process.

West Ham have not won a league game at City since the 2002-03 campaign, but can take heart from masterminding two stunning results this season by beating Arsenal and Liverpool on their travels.

And, speaking at his pre-match media conference, Bilic said: "It would be a surprise [if West Ham won] of course because Manchester City have scored 11 goals in the league and have not conceded.

"They are cruising in the early stages and already have a gap which is hard to get after five games.

"It wouldn't be a shock as we already have two out of two away wins. We know what we need to do to have a chance.

"They are the favourites of course but I am expecting us to have a good game and if that is the case we will have chances."

Aside from Aguero, City have a concern over captain Vincent Kompany, who picked up a calf injury against Juve. Pablo Zabaleta (knee) and Fernando (groin) are likely to miss out, with Fabian Delph (hamstring) and Gael Clichy (ankle) both out.

For West Ham, Angelo Ogbonna is unavailable due to a hamstring problem, Alex Song is still recovering from an ankle complaint and long-term absentee Enner Valencia (knee) is sidelined.

But Mauro Zarate is back in full training following a hamstring concern and Pedro Obiang is expected to shake off a knock in time to be fit.

MANCHESTER CITY (4-2-3-1): Hart; Sagna, Otamendi, Mangala, Kolarov; Toure, Fernandinho; De Bruyne, Silva, Sterling; Aguero.

SUBS: Fernando, Caballero, Bony, Navas, Demichelis, Maffeo, Iheanacho.

WEST HAM (4-2-3-1): Adrian; Jenkinson, Tomkins, Reid, Cresswell; Noble, Obiang; Lanzini, Payet, Moses; Sakho.


SUBS: Randolph, Carroll, Zarate, Collins, Jelavic, Antonio, Oxford.


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Luke Shaw's anticipated return to Southampton has been put on hold again.

With Manchester United's young star defender in the early stages of recovering from a gruesome leg injury, the visiting Reds are set to move on minus one of their key contributors Sunday.

A product of Southampton's youth system who made his debut for that club in January 2012, Shaw was a popular staple for the Saints before he made the £27 million jump to United prior to last season. An ankle injury kept Shaw out of United's 2-1 win at St. Mary's on Dec. 8.

So all seemed right for a homecoming Sunday, but the 20-year-old broke his leg in two places from a tackle by Hector Moreno in the 15th minute of Tuesday's 2-1 loss to PSV Eindhoven in the Reds' return to Champions League competition.

''It is awful,'' United manager Louis van Gaal said. ''When he came into the dressing room, he had an oxygen mask and was crying.

"I hope he will play again this season."

Reaction to the injury spread rapidly and players throughout international soccer took to Twitter to post their concern and well wishes for Shaw, whose 450 minutes logged in league play this season are tied for the club lead.

"Gutted mate," Southampton forward Jay Rodriguez posted to the club's official Twitter account. "Stay positive."

Shaw, meanwhile, is grateful for the support.

"Thank you, you don't know how much you as a club mean to me," he tweeted to Southampton's page. "Thank you so much I really appreciate it."

The quartet of Matteo Darmian, Chris Smalling, Daley Blind and Shaw started all eight of United's matches over all competitions this season and are a big reason they've yielded three goals while going 3-1-1 in Premier League action. Marcos Rojo replaced Shaw during that ill-fated match and could be in line to start Sunday when the Reds look to rebound from their European defeat by continuing their solid top-flight form.

"You can't take anything for granted, whether that's a league game, a cup game or a Champions League game," Smalling said.

In perhaps better news for van Gaal's side, Wayne Rooney could return after missing Tuesday's match and the 3-1 victory over Liverpool last Saturday with a reported hamstring injury. Rooney still doesn't have a goal in his four league matches for United, who scored half of their top-flight goals against Liverpool.

He hasn't scored in his last three games against Southampton (1-3-1).

United's 6-2-0 league stretch against the Saints ended last season with a 1-0 home defeat. Man U have won three times and drawn once over their last four such contests at St. Mary's.

Southampton are trying to record a clean sheet in four consecutive Premier League matches for the second time in as many seasons. However, they've been blanked three times in their last four after a scoreless draw at West Bromwich Albion last Saturday.

"That's positive, because in my opinion it starts always at the back and a clean sheet normally makes a winning game," manager Ronald Koeman said. "But I think we have to realise that we have to create more."

Graziano Pelle and Dusan Tadic each have two of the Saints' five Premier League goals this season. Pelle scored in last year's home defeat to the Reds.

United are hopeful of having captain Wayne Rooney fit again after he missed both the Liverpool and PSV clashes, though Phil Jones is still a doubt and Luke Shaw will not make his St Mary's return after breaking his leg in midweek.

For Southampton, Jordy Clasie (ankle) and Ryan Bertrand (knee) are doubts, with Gaston Ramirez (hamstring), Florin Gardos and Fraser Forster (both knee) sidelined for the long term.

United have not kept a clean sheet against Southampton in any of their last seven meetings and have only beaten them once in their last four encounters, when Robin van Persie scored both goals in a 2-1 win on the south coast last December.

Southampton can close to within a point of the Red Devils in the Premier League table with a victory.

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Date: Sunday, 20th September
Kick off: 16:00 BST
Venue: St. Mary's Stadium

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