December 16, 2009 - Adobe just posted a new Security Advisory (APSA09-07, CVE-2009-4324) for the latest critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.2 (and earlier). The flaw lies within a JavaScript function specific to the PDF Reader. Adobe plans to release a (continue reading...) Read more
December 15, 2009 - Much malware comes with a kernel rootkit component. Subverting the Windows kernel is indeed the best way to conceal malicious activities on infected systems. To achieve this, many types of malware load malicious device drivers that enjoy full access to (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2009 - The United States is still a safe haven for spammers. With U.S. anti-spam legislation doing very little to thwart spammers and the McColo takedown having only a short-term effect, we have found that due to low-cost and reliable hosting and (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2009 - Following the latest Captcha techniques used by the W32/Koobface worm, it seems that malware authors have turned to Santa for help to deliver the nasty surprise which awaits Facebook users. The infection drops other Trojans, such as FakeAlert, (continue reading...) Read more
December 1, 2009 - On December 1st McAfee Labs detected an outbreak of a spam mail pretending to be from the CDC and using the H1N1 virus to facilitate the distribution of a Zeus Trojan executable. The email claims that the CDC is (continue reading...) Read more
December 1, 2009 - National unemployment rates over 10% and the pressures of the holiday shopping season make for a dangerous cocktail that the cyber criminals can take advantage of. Fears of not being able to pay the monthly mortgage, car payments, backed up (continue reading...) Read more
November 29, 2009 - We discussed in a recent blog how Google Reader has become an unwitting spam target. We now see the same behavior in a recent variant of Koobface. This variant uses the Google Reader page to host the malware. Once the (continue reading...) Read more