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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...
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...
Tax Season Email Scam Aims to Steal from Uncle Sam
Every year around tax season, we see a huge spike in tax-related social engineering attacks. Social engineering is a type...
How to Protect Yourself from Tax Scams
Tax season is now upon us, and more than ever, we are opting for the convenience of filing taxes online...
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...
Online Safety for Kids – The App Your Kids are Using Now: Snapchat
The #1 question asked by parents when I present for McAfee’s Online Safety for Kids program, is “Where do I...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Fake Vertu App Infects Korean and Japanese Android Users
A new threat has surfaced targeting users in Korea and Japan, but this attack, unlike others making the news, is...
Digital Stalking: Physical Eavesdropping on Your Mobile Device
Did you know that while you innocently play games or browse Facebook on your smartphone or tablet, someone might be...
Don’t Want to Read Through the Fine Print? There’s an App for That
We’ve always been told to “read the fine print before you sign on the dotted line,” but let’s be frank....
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....
Are Google and Bing Serving You Safe Search Results?
New research has concluded that despite best efforts to keep search results clean, Google and Bing often serve malware-infected sites...
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...
Visualizing A DDoS Cyber Attack
A denial-of-service (DDoS) attack occurs when hackers flood a target website with large amounts of traffic. This traffic is often generated...
Cybercasing – How Sharing Your Pics, Videos and Status Updates Can Get You Into Trouble
It can be fun ‘checking in’ at your favourite restaurant on Facebook, sharing pics of your hotel room on Instagram...
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...
Travnet Botnet Controls Victims With Remote Admin Tool
The malicious binary behind the Travnet botnet has been updated. The new code has a new compression algorithm, steals the...
Bank Account Logins for Sale, Courtesy of Citadel Botnet
Financial theft is one of the most lucrative forms of cybercrime. Malware authors continue to deliver sophisticated tools and techniques...
Riddle: What’s the One Password You’ll NEVER Forget?
Last week during his keynote speech at the Interop IT conference, PayPal’s Chief Information Security Officer Michael Barrett pointed to...
Phishing Scam Targets Walmart.com Online Customers
Late last week, Walmart alerted the public to an email-based scam that used the company’s name (misspelled as “Wallmart”) to...
Delving Deeply Into a Bitcoin Botnet
Bitcoin is a virtual decentralized currency that was created in 2009 by developer Satoshi Nakamoto, who described the currency in...
Phishing Attack Replaces Android Banking Apps With Malware
Mobile devices are also increasingly being used to manage a critical and important asset for all of us: our money....
Do You Know What Your Kids Are Hiding?
Many of you as parents may think, not much when asked this question. But in reality, it’s probably a lot...
Six Easy Steps to Help Keep Hackers at Bay
Cybercriminals are adopting complex and powerful techniques to “hack,” or take control of online accounts belonging to other people or...
