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 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 17, 2010 - McAfee Labs has been monitoring a spam run that was launched earlier today. The message follows: Subject: A very warm invitation to you Body: Hello, Hope your week has been wonderfull well. I would like to extend a very warm invitation to you to (continue reading...) Read more
September 15, 2010 - A new phishing scam is targeting users of the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS), a free service provided by the U.S. Department of the Treasury since 1996. The recent fraudulent format uses an email message that claims to be (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
September 12, 2010 - Social engineering is probably the most common technique for to enticing unsuspecting victims to reveal information or purchase something of no value. In the anti-virus world we often see malware authors use scare tactics to sell rogue anti-virus or “fake (continue reading...) Read more
September 1, 2010 - Two weeks ago, I posted a blog entry talking about the counterfeiting of legal documents. I have received many comments and requests for further data related to this type of fraud from various Eastern Europe countries, France, and even (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 24, 2010 - We unceasingly monitor and combat old and emerging web threats, taking different approaches to best protect our customers. Cybercriminals continuously look for new ways to steal valuable information. A recent phishing scam we’ve seen impersonates three popular institutions: PayPal, Bank of (continue reading...) Read more
August 23, 2010 - Phishing and identity theft involve not only the theft of funds. In addition to financial data, information collected by cybercriminals also can allow them to create and sell false legal documents. On top of selling malware, renting botnets, or launching denial-of-service (continue reading...) Read more
August 17, 2010 - Last year, the U.S. government passed a law making mandatory online registration for travel for all citizens from countries eligible for the Visa Waiver Program. The Visa Waiver Program is available to citizens from the European Union, but also to (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
July 27, 2010 - First of all, this is not a sales pitch. McAfee offers several of its products for a trial period. However, we want you to know that we have just found a brand new variant (continue reading...) Read more
July 27, 2010 - We have noticed two frequent types of spam-phishing attacks targeting Amazon users. These messages at first appear to be legitimate, and the fake Amazon links end in a format such as this: <domain /index.php?pid=14>. Every link in the email goes to (continue reading...) Read more
July 12, 2010 - Social networking sites and technologies are among the hottest happenings on the Internet. However, in this case every benefit comes with an equal danger: These sites and technologies are also huge targets for cybercriminals. One of McAfee Labs senior researchers, (continue reading...) Read more
July 7, 2010 - Name any famous or popular website, they all seem to have become the prime targets on spammers lists. Researchers at McAfee Labs have seen an increasing trend wherein famous websites like Amazon, Ebay, Youtube, Wordpress, Wikipedia, Godaddy, Eventful.com, (continue reading...) Read more
June 30, 2010 - We just noticed a new wave of fake resume spam that redirects users to a malicious site. We see the resume pages were uploaded to innocent sites in top-level domains of various countries, perhaps in an attempt to internationalize the (continue reading...) Read more