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....
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...
What is a Botnet?
The word botnet or bot is short for robot network. A botnet is a group of Internet-connected personal computers that...
Labs Paper Looks ‘Inside the World of the Citadel Trojan’
Zeus “banking” malware and its variants have been making headlines in recent months. One variant, the Citadel Trojan, has now...
Botnet Control Servers Span the Globe
McAfee Labs has long monitored botnet activities and their control servers as they plague the Internet. With millions of McAfee endpoints...
NGRBot Spreads Via Chat
NGRBot is a worm that propagates through chat messengers, the Internet Relay Chat channel, social networking sites etc. It steals...
Facebook Bot Spreads Through Chat Messengers [Updated]
Update from Facebook: The Facebook security team been actively tracking this botnet and providing McAfee AV to the victims (via...
Combating Malware and Advanced Persistent Threats
In the past decade, the security industry has seen a constant rise in the volume of malware and attacks associated...
