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Pastebin Shares Botnet Source Code
Few days back, we found another Pastebin entry that contains a source which looks to be malicious...
Mobile Security
Mobile and Phishing – Why It’s More Dangerous
Phishing occurs when scammers send emails that appear to have been sent by legitimate, trusted organizations in...
McAfee Labs
CVE-2012-0158 Exploit in the Wild
Since last week, we have seen many specially crafted files exploiting CVE-2012-0158, a vulnerability in MSCOMCTL.OCX in...
McAfee Labs
Latest SpyEye Botnet Active and Cheaper
On April 16, we found a Pastebin entry selling the latest version of the infamous SpyEye botnet...
McAfee Labs
Digging Into the Nitol DDoS Botnet
Nitol is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet that seems to be small and not widely...
McAfee Labs
Hacker Leaves Online Trail, Loses Anonymity
Since March 20, the @Anonw0rmer Twitter account has been silent. Its owner, w0rmer, is known as a...
McAfee Labs
Darkshell DDOS Botnet Evolves With Variants
Darkshell is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet targeting Chinese websites. It was found in 2011...
Family Safety
Don’t Let Location-Based Services Put You in Danger
Location-based services utilize geo-location information to publish your whereabouts. In some cases, these services can also provide...
Family Safety
Almost 5% of Smartphones Lost Every Year
McAfee and Ponemon Institute recently released “The Lost Smartphone Problem,” a study that attempts to determine how...
McAfee Labs
Networked Printers at Risk
Multifunction printers (MFPs) have been common in offices for years. They let employees print, scan, and copy...
McAfee Labs
Fighting Mobile Phone Impersonation and Surveillance
Yesterday at the 28th Chaos Communications Congress (28C3), in Berlin, security researchers along with Karsten Nohl and...
McAfee Labs
Inside Adobe Reader Zero-Day Exploit CVE 2011-2462
Recently a critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader X and Adobe Acrobat X Versions 10.1.1...Stay Updated
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