How Hackers Use Popular Shows to Infect Your Devices
If there’s one reasonable measurement of how popular a television series has become, it’s how often it’s illegally downloaded online....
Slow File Infector Spies on Victims
Sourabh Kadam contributed to this blog. In the middle of 2012 McAfee Labs observed the complex malware XDocCrypt infecting documents,...
What is Ransomware?
Imagine that you want to pull up a certain file on your computer. You click on the file and suddenly...
Is This Your Photo? No, It’s SMS Spam With Mobile Malware
One of the most important concerns of Internet users is privacy. For this reason one of the most effective phishing...
Win32/Syndicasec Used In Targeted Attacks Against Indian Organizations
During the last couple of months, we’ve observed several RTF exploits that target Indian organizations. The first RTF exploit was...
Bypassing Microsoft’s Patch for the Sandworm Zero Day
This is the second part of our analysis of the Sandworm OLE zero-day vulnerability and the MS14-060 patch bypass. Check out...
Exploit Kits Improve Evasion Techniques
Exploit kits are toolkits that malicious developers use to take advantage of client-side vulnerabilities, targeting web browsers and programs that...
Bypassing Microsoft’s Patch for the Sandworm Zero Day, the Root Cause
On October 21, we warned the public that a new exploitation method could bypass Microsoft’s official patch (MS14-060, KB3000869) for...
Chinese Trojan Hooks Macs, iPhones
“Distrust and caution are the parents of security”–Benjamin Franklin A recent threat targeting Chinese users of Mac OS X and...
What Is a Trojan Horse?
One of history’s great literary classics is Homer’s Iliad, which tells the story of the Trojan horse—the wooden horse that...
