Product Coverage and Mitigation for CVE-2014-1761 (Microsoft Word)
On March 24, Microsoft released Security Advisory 2953095 for Microsoft Word. In-the-wild exploitation of this vulnerability has been observed across...
Timeline of Bitcoin Events Demonstrates Online Currency’s Volatility
The buzz about Bitcoin has moved from online circles to mainstream media sources. Last week’s news of the collapse of...
Chameleon: the Wi-Fi Virus That Hides in Plain Sight & Spreads Like a Cold
Recently, a group of researchers at the University of Liverpool successfully tested a new virus with a terrifying potential. It...
Internet Explorer Zero Day Offers Unusual Case Study
While analyzing a recent Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2014-0322 (containing the Flash sample hash b9c9dab0fd30418884800afebbaba4d99f4526ef0c9a47972a20ab20fed0a06d), we noticed the exploit makes...
Apple, SSL, and the Importance of Updating Your Software
Before we begin: please take a minute to update all of your iOS devices to the latest iOS version, iOS...
Examining Your Very Own Sefnit Trojan
Most malware is created for economic purposes. To name just a few of our reports and blogs on this topic,...
Careto Worldwide Malware Attack Unmasked
On Monday Kaspersky Labs announced the discovery of a large number of malware infections across large parts of the globe. Kaspersky...
Plasma HTTP Botnet Steals Passwords From Chrome, FileZilla
Last year we reported on the Athena HTTP botnet, which targets Windows XP systems, mostly for distributed denial-of-service attacks. Now...
Neverquest Banking Trojan Uses VNC, SOCKS in New Threat
A new banking Trojan in the news, known as Neverquest, is active and being used to attack a number of...
2014 Threats Predictions: Network and Host Attacks Will Again Target Apps, Java
This post is one in a series of articles that expand on the recently released McAfee Labs 2014 Threats Predictions....
