Content Tagged ‘Exploit Research’

Stuxnet Update

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

Adobe PDF Zero-Day Exploit Discovered in the Wild

September 8, 2010 - Just after Adobe released its out-of-band patch for CVE-2010-2862, we discovered a malware exploiting a new zero-day vulnerability in the wild. Similar to the iOS PDF jailbreak vulnerability and CVE-2010-2862, this zero day occurs while Adobe Reader is parsing TrueType (continue reading...) Read more

Labs Releases Whitepaper on Cooperative Anti-Malware on Endpoint and Gateway

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

Downloader-CJX Cashing In on Microsoft .LNK Flaw

July 26, 2010 - As McAfee Labs predicted in a previous blog post regarding the Microsoft Windows Shell .LNK vulnerability, it was just a matter of time before malware started using Exploit-CVE2010-2568 to take advantage of this new Microsoft zero-day flaw. The (continue reading...) Read more

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