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Emerging ‘Stack Pivoting’ Exploits Bypass Common Security
[This blog was primarily written by Xiaoning Li of McAfee Labs, with assistance from Peter Szor of McAfee Labs.] In...
Tracking PDF Usage Poses a Security Problem
Update on May 2 Adobe has confirmed this vulnerability and has scheduled a patch release for May 14. Looking...
Travnet Botnet Steals Huge Amount of Sensitive Data
In a McAfee Labs blog by my colleague Vikas Taneja last month, he discussed high-level functioning in the malware Travnet....
One-Click Fraud Variant on Google Play in Japan Steals User Data
Last week McAfee Labs reported a series of “one-click fraud” malware on Google Play in Japan. We have been monitoring...
Turkish ‘Delete Virus’ Targets Facebook Users
Facebook continues to be a favorite target for attackers to spread fake wall-post messages or fake scams. Most of the...
Phishing Threat Uses UTF-8 BOM in ZIP Signature to Evade Detection
This blog was written by Sanchit Karve. Last week, we noticed thousands of malware files in the wild that employ...
Multiple Java Exploits Hide in a Jar (File)
Exploits of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) have been extensively used in drive-by-download toolkits such as Blackhole and Red Kit....
VSkimmer Botnet Targets Credit Card Payment Terminals
April 2 This blog has been updated with McAfee’s NSP detection. See end of blog. While monitoring a Russian underground...
Travnet Trojan Could Be Part of APT Campaign
This blog post was written by Vikas Taneja. Attackers use all kinds of attack vectors to steal sensitive information from...
An Overview of Messaging Botnets
In the quarterly McAfee Threats Reports we offer our readers some charts on the prevalence of messaging botnets. For the...
