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 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 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 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
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
January 22, 2010 - Never is the heartless nature of cybercriminals more apparent than in the wake of a tragedy. As relief efforts continue and worldwide aid pours in to help those affected by the earthquake that rocked Haiti on January 12, cybercriminals have not (continue reading...) Read more
January 11, 2010 - Angelina Jolie and Barack Obama are the #1 celeb subjects of choice for spammers, according to our January Spam Report. The report also reveals: • The top 25 men and women that were spammed • Chinese pharma spam isn’t going away – in (continue reading...) Read more
December 28, 2009 - With the New Year just days away, it’s time for McAfee Labs 2010 Threat Predictions. What should you be wary of in the coming year? Social networks. Sites such as Twitter and Facebook have changed the way we communicate, interact, (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - I ran into a few strange IMs over the weekend. When I was not shoveling out my driveway from the 15 inches of snow that covered it I was logged into Facebook telling people about it…. It was then that (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 8, 2009 - We recently alerted our readers to spam campaigns using the H1N1 vaccination program to prompt recipients to open the mail. And we have frequently mentioned that crooks love to take advantage of news, disasters, and other events. Now that the (continue reading...) Read more
December 2, 2009 - We have just released “Mapping the Mal Web,” our third report revealing the riskiest and safest web domains to surf and search. For the first time combining data from McAfee’s SiteAdvisor and TrustedSource, the report is even (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