March 30, 2010 - Today Microsoft released MS10-018 covering 10 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2010-0806, a zero-day threat discovered in the wild earlier in this month. Reported exploit detections from McAfee home users are significant, though well below the top 20 detections at the the (continue reading...) Read more
March 29, 2010 - Scams based on the United States Internal Revenue Service requirements increase every year during tax season. It’s common to see online threats and tactics in which identity thieves and hackers try to convince taxpayers to reveal their personal and financial (continue reading...) Read more
March 29, 2010 - Last week in Strasbourg, France, the Council of Europe organized the Octopus Interface Conference 2010. More than 300 experts from all over the world, representing governments, law enforcement authorities, international organizations, and the Internet industry gathered to discuss the “Cooperation (continue reading...) Read more
March 29, 2010 - All over the world, individuals and many organized crime and mafia groups have found that the Internet can help them make a lot of money. Others are motivated by ideology: Manipulated by or acting in accordance with an ethos, they (continue reading...) Read more
March 17, 2010 - This is the time of year when basketball fans go online to fill out their bracket selections. While fans are playing with their brackets, hackers are also playing their own game of “spamdexing”-–manipulating search results to promote, in this case, (continue reading...) Read more
March 17, 2010 - Today has been quite a busy day for scammers. We at McAfee Labs have been tracking a global scam/spam run that targets Facebook users. The lure used in the run is a familiar one: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Customer Support. The email (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2010 - On March 9 McAfee warned consumers that “scareware,” or fake anti-virus software, may be the most costly online scam in 2010, causing significant monetary loss and damage to users’ computers. In this blog, I’ll give you some additional details (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2010 - On Tuesday 9, McAfee warned consumers that “scareware,” or fake antivirus software, may be the most costly online scam in 2010, causing significant monetary loss and damage to users’ computers. With this blog, I wish to give you some (continue reading...) Read more
March 12, 2010 - About a year or so ago one of the “McMarketeers” decided it would be fun to run a campaign against “fram”–spam that friends send you. As you might guess, we in the Labs have no friends, so it was (continue reading...) Read more
March 11, 2010 - As we were working through URLs identified as suspicious due to our GTI technology, one of the URLs that presented itself was an average “.com” site that loaded a php. As we processed this – it was interesting to see (continue reading...) Read more
March 10, 2010 - McAfee Labs today published its March Spam Report. This month authors Adam Wosotowsky and Elan Winkler discuss a possible charity scam in France that takes advantage of sympathy for the victims of the Haitian earthquake, examine a “ham campaign” (continue reading...) Read more
March 10, 2010 - Most of us are familiar with how high profile news events are used for malware distribution. We’ve seen it many times such as with Tiger Woods’ scandal and the earthquake in Haiti. Now the recent earthquake in Chile is used (continue reading...) Read more
March 9, 2010 - Earlier today, Microsoft released Security Advisory (981374). This advisory covers CVE-2010-0806, an unpatched vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7. This attack appears to be rather targeted at the moment, but as with other unpatched vulnerabilities in the past, (continue reading...) Read more
March 8, 2010 - Last week Apple formally announced the launch date for the Wi-Fi version of its much anticipated new tablet computer, the iPad. As with most events that generate a lot of media and consumer interest, this one also generated curiosity from the (continue reading...) Read more
March 5, 2010 - We frequently read stories about spammers who can circumvent CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) authentication. Using bot-infected machines, they can create a vast number of random e-mail accounts for spamming purposes. This week, a (continue reading...) Read more
February 23, 2010 - The combination of search engine optimization with sporting and holiday news continues to fascinate me. Oh, and did I mention malware and malicious websites? They always make for interesting bedfellows. The Olympics have been getting massive coverage, of course, and St. (continue reading...) Read more
February 10, 2010 - 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…malware! It’s like clockwork, ain’t it? A popular holiday–such as Valentine’s Day–approaches and malware authors and cybercriminals ready for it. I have done some Valentine’s Day searches for poisoned terms and found some nasty ones very (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2010 - Today we unveiled our Threats Report for the fourth quarter of 2009. It highlights many of the most significant spam-generating stories in 2009 as well as the rise of political hacktivism in countries such as Poland, Latvia, Denmark, and Switzerland. (continue reading...) Read more
February 8, 2010 - As a rule, we don’t do product plugs on this blog for obvious reasons. This is the place for research and data on threats and responses. But we’re going to make an exception to bring you a video from Dave (continue reading...) Read more
February 2, 2010 - This guest post was written by Benjamin Edelman, Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School and an advisor to McAfee. Last week I revealed troubling transmissions by the Google Toolbar: Even when a user specifically “disable” the Google Toolbar, and (continue reading...) Read more