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...
Just One of Many Internet Scams
A good friend of mine called me recently to ask what I knew about scams from online sales. He had...
YouTube Video Scam Targets Facebook Users
Be advised cybercriminals are at it again, leveraging the popularity of Facebook and YouTube to scam consumers.We have seen several...
‘Police Ransomware’ Preys on Guilty Consciences
“Police ransomware” is big business, generating millions of euros for organized criminal groups. In May, at Europol’s headquarters in The...
Malicious Websites – The Web is a Dangerous Place
McAfee’s latest Threats Report shows a growth in malicious websites replacing botnets as the primary infection mechanism. This means that...
Operation High Roller Raises Financial Fraud Stakes
Earlier today Guardian Analytics and McAfee released the joint report “Dissecting Operation High Roller,” which describes a new breed of...
Jumping Into the Flames of Skywiper
There has been quite a bit of analysis and speculation about the Flamer/Skywiper threat. As we started to analyze this...
Latest SpyEye Botnet Active and Cheaper
On April 16, we found a Pastebin entry selling the latest version of the infamous SpyEye botnet (Version 1.3.48) for...
Android Malware Pairs Man-in-the-Middle With Remote-Controlled Banking Trojan
Based on the Android malware that we’ve seen so far, one of the principal motivations to develop and spread malware...
The Day of the Golden Jackal – The Next Tale in the Stuxnet Files: Duqu Updated
Stuxnet was possibly the most complex attack of this decade, and we expected that similar attacks would appear in the...
