November 10, 2010 - McAfee Labs learned today that a malicious Java applet was being linked through a Facebook application. Users don’t have to install the Facebook app on their profiles to be be exposed to this threat. On browsing to a specific Facebook application (continue reading...) Read more
November 3, 2010 - It looks like spammers have found a new way to increase their success rates on their “pump and dump” stock scams: using the target company’s legitimate social media marketing campaigns to their advantage. We’ve seen it before: Spammers purchase penny (low-priced) (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2010 - What a great month…and the activities aren’t over yet! Reflecting back over Cyber Security Awareness Month, I saw many encouraging ways that security professionals are taking on this “shared responsibility” to educate. I spent some quality time with the security executives (continue reading...) Read more
October 28, 2010 - Some of the most interesting research on mobile botnets is being done in the lab. Security researchers Collin Mulliner and Jean Pierre Seifert have put together a robust Proof-of-Concept (PoC) iPhone botnet. Their research was presented at the 5th International Conference (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - Things are starting to get a little tougher in the botnet world. This year we have witnessed many shutdowns of major botnets and their owners arrested. We have also seen money mules arrested and - more importantly - arrests for (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - The world’s most heavily trafficked web domain, .COM, is now the riskiest, according to our fourth annual Mapping the Mal Web report released today. A staggering fifty-six percent of all risky sites end in .COM! Researcher at our very own McAfee (continue reading...) Read more
October 25, 2010 - 1. Nigerian Scams: According to a Dutch study, victims of advanced-fee scams, which are also known as 419 scams or Nigerian scams, lost more than $9 billion in 2009, almost 50% more than the previous year. (This PDF (continue reading...) Read more
October 25, 2010 - I read with great relish about the release of Firesheep over the weekend at ToorCon. Firesheep, written by Eric Butler, is a FireFox plugin that allows for the capturing of “insecure” login information. From the Firesheep website: “When logging (continue reading...) Read more
October 20, 2010 - McAfee just hosted its third FOCUS security conference in Las Vegas. I greatly enjoyed the 2008 and 2009 events, and I’ve just returned from the 2010 conference. Of course, I did not miss the keynotes sessions from our CEO (continue reading...) Read more
October 19, 2010 - Today I received yet another World of Warcraft account phish. I have been getting these in an increased volume lately and have seen some fakes that are quite good. This one came to my hotmail account and looked very bland: (continue reading...) Read more
October 18, 2010 - Welcome to Week #3 of Cyber Security Awareness Month (CSAM). What are you doing this week to help those around you STOP.THINK.CONNECT when they go online? If you were one of our business customers at FOCUS 2010 (continue reading...) Read more
October 14, 2010 - Surprised to find annual cybercrime damage spread somewhere between 300 million and 54 BILLION? So is the Director of National Intelligence. Today Brian Krebs of the Washington Post and Krebsonsecurity.com detailed (continue reading...) Read more
October 11, 2010 - Ok I game. Get over it but this REALLY does relate to malware and malicious website research….. just stay with me. Warhammer Online has what they call an “Endless Trial”. Meaning you can play the game for free, theoretically, forever (its (continue reading...) Read more
October 1, 2010 - This week in Troyes, France, the University of Technology hosted the fourth French-Speaking Days on Digital Investigations, designed for investigators, prosecuting attorneys, and legal experts in charge of fighting cybercrimes. All the participants in the congress were members of the (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 27, 2010 - Today, McAfee released a report based on a survey of more than 1,000 decision-makers about the use of Web 2.0 technology for business. The report reveals some interesting results (for example, who would have thought the United States is among the (continue reading...) Read more
September 24, 2010 - Stuxnet has received a lot of attention since McAfee first blogged about it in July. This post will answer some of the frequently asked questions we’ve received. Q: What is Stuxnet? A: Stuxnet is (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 15, 2010 - Today we announced a technology enhancement in our threat intelligence portfolio: We’re using McAfee Global Threat Intelligence to hunt for new malware. McAfee has led the industry in defining and building our Global Threat Intelligence cloud and integrating it into (continue reading...) Read more