The Top 5 Scariest Mobile Threats
Halloween has to be one of my favorite holidays of the year. Creative costumes, buckets of candy, and pumpkin spice...
Infected Minecraft Apps Could Potentially Turn Over 2 Million Android Devices Into a Botnet Army
We all love a good game, especially those that allow us to create and innovate with the touch of our...
Android Click-Fraud App Repurposed as DDoS Botnet
The McAfee Mobile Research Team tracks the behavior of Android click-fraud apps. We have detected multiple implementations, including recent examples...
The Do You Knows of DDoS Attacks
“Where’s my phone?” In a blink of an eye, my home is suddenly flipped upside down—couch cushions overturned, drawers –...
Mirai, BrickerBot, Hajime Attack a Common IoT Weakness
This blog post was written by Rick Simon. We know that devices in the Internet of Things make enticing targets...
Mirai Botnet Creates Army of IoT Orcs
This post was based on analysis by Yashashree Gund and RaviKant Tiwari. There is a lot of speculation in the...
TinyNuke May be a Ticking Time Bomb
On March 12th, 2017 a low-profile developer uploaded to Github a mostly functional Botnet code named TinyNuke. The user, Aainz,...
Analyzing a Fresh Variant of the Dorkbot Botnet
This blog post was written by Sudhanshu Dubey. At McAfee Labs, we have recently observed a new variant of the...
How Much Control Do You Really Have Over Your Family’s Connected Life?
If you took an inventory of your family’s connected devices, would you have three or four devices, or would it...
What’s the Deal with Mirai? A Rundown on one of the Biggest Botnets
Every once in a while, a type of malware become so effective and prevalent that it dominates headlines for weeks....
