October 1, 2010 - The Storm worm marked its presence in early 2007 and became an infamous robot network primarily known for its spamming and phishing activities. Also known as Nuwar/Zhelatin/FakeAV/Peacomm, this bot reappeared early this year, distributed by fake AV software and (continue reading...) Read more
September 30, 2010 - It looks like some of the recent success in taking down Zeus-using cybercriminals is coming to the United States. The FBI has recently announced that it has charged as many as 60 people and has arrested 10 as part (continue reading...) Read more
September 29, 2010 - During the last six years, botnets have become one of the biggest threats to security professionals, businesses, and consumers. We at McAfee Labs have just released more information about how cybercriminals can use common social networks and common web applications, (continue reading...) Read more
September 20, 2010 - The Zeus botnet has been in the wild since 2007 and it is among the top botnets active today. This bot has an amazing and rarely observed means of stealing personal information–by infecting users’ computers and capturing all the information (continue reading...) Read more
September 13, 2010 - Over the weekend I had the chance to put some work into my lowbie dwarf paladin named Boulderbrain. I was at the Stormwind bank minding my own business when I suddenly get this whisper: (continue reading...) Read more
August 31, 2010 - Yesterday we discovered a new Zeus campaign. Most of the messages associated with the new spam campaign are linked to the Asprox botnet. This time, the focus is on FedEx. Most of the attachments start with either FedExDoc.exe or FedExInvoice.exe. Those (continue reading...) Read more
August 31, 2010 - The Anti-Malware engine is a critical and core piece of the McAfee anti-malware solutions. As with any core technology, the engine must be rock-solid stable, fast, and functionally rich. A new McAfee Labs whitepaper outlines these engine technologies and values, (continue reading...) Read more
August 25, 2010 - This blog was updated at 1.15 pm Pacific time on Aug. 26. McAfee Labs has detected a new strain of spam in the wild that is not only a sophisticated forgery of a Newegg purchase receipt, but there is also some (continue reading...) Read more
August 13, 2010 - McAfee Labs detected a new wave of the PWS-Zbot (a.k.a Zeus) spam campaign this week. Some common phrases used in the email subject headers: Subject: Sales Dept Subject: Another candidate brought to you Subject: Summary of payments These emails carried PWS-Zbot Trojan variants that are (continue reading...) Read more
August 10, 2010 - Malware has reached its highest levels, making the first six months of 2010 the most active half-year ever for total malware production. At the same time, spam leveled out, with only 2.5 percent growth from last quarter. Malware continued to soar (continue reading...) Read more