Fake Android Update Delivers SMS, Click Fraud in Europe
McAfee Mobile Research has been monitoring a mobile malware campaign targeting users in Germany, France, and Russia since the beginning...
Malware Takes Advantage of Windows ‘God Mode’
Microsoft Windows has hidden an Easter Egg since Windows Vista. It allows users to create a specially named folder that...
Macro Malware Employs Advanced Obfuscation to Avoid Detection
Attacks by macro malware carrying ransomware are growing, as we have recently reported on Blog Central here and here. Now McAfee Labs...
Scammers Abuse Trust in Google Alerts, Bypass Filters
We all like to be in the loop, especially when it comes to the news. Facebook notifications, news channels, and...
Unwanted Guests at Trump Hotels: Malware and Credit Card Fraud
Hotels go to great lengths to be your home away from home. Therefore, the last thing they, and you, want...
What You Need to Know About Stagefright
Any mention of stage fright transports us to our schooldays when we had to go up on stage to recite...
Quarterly Threat Report: What Do the Numbers Mean to Me?
This blog post was written by Bruce Snell. Every quarter, the team at McAfee Labs releases a threats report detailing...
Email Hackers, Go Home! New Security Updates Come to Gmail
Email has been an integral part of our culture for more than two decades now. It seems like just yesterday...
McAfee Labs Unlocks LeChiffre Ransomware
At McAfee Labs we recently received a low-profile ransomware called LeChiffre. Unlike ransomware that is distributed by a spam campaign or...
W97M Downloader Serves Vawtrak Malware
McAfee Labs recently found a variant of the W97M macro malware downloader that runs the Vawtrak malware. Although W97M usually...
