2014 Threats Predictions: The Internet of Things Offers Handy Gadget Control,...
This post is one in a series of articles that expand on the recently released McAfee Labs 2014 Threats Predictions. In this and related posts, McAfee Labs researchers offer their views of new and...
View Article2014 Threats Predictions: Advanced Threats, Techniques Challenge the Best of...
This post is one in a series of articles that expand on the recently released McAfee Labs 2014 Threats Predictions. In this and related posts, McAfee Labs researchers offer their views of new and...
View Article2014 Threats Predictions: Network and Host Attacks Will Again Target Adobe...
This post is one in a series of articles that expand on the recently released McAfee Labs 2014 Threats Predictions. In this and related posts, McAfee Labs researchers offer their views of new and...
View Article2014 Threats Predictions: Botnets, Spam Explore New Avenues to Steal Data, Money
This post is one in a series of articles that expand on the recently released McAfee Labs 2014 Threats Predictions. In this and related posts, McAfee Labs researchers offer their views of new and...
View Article2014 Threats Predictions: HTML5, Exploit Kits, ‘Free’ Software Require Web...
This post is one in a series of articles that expand on the recently released McAfee Labs 2014 Threats Predictions. In this and related posts, McAfee Labs researchers offer their views of new and...
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Analyzing the Target Point-of-Sale Malware
In the last 24 hours, McAfee Labs has started to piece together more and more detail on the malware that is apparently tied to the campaign against Target. To recap, in November 2013 the retailer was...
View Article2014 Threats Predictions: Malware to Take Advantage of Hotspots, Gaming Consoles
This post is the last in a series of articles that expand on the recently released McAfee Labs 2014 Threats Predictions. In this and related posts, McAfee Labs researchers offer their views of new and...
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Neverquest Banking Trojan Uses VNC, SOCKS in New Threat
A new banking Trojan in the news, known as Neverquest, is active and being used to attack a number of popular banking websites. This Trojan can identify target sites by searching for specific keywords...
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One-Click Scammers Still Targeting Japanese Smartphone Users
Last year we saw an attack targeting Android device users in which more than 2,400 malicious one-click fraud apps were published on Google Play in Japan. The attack has calmed down since October 2013,...
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New Year’s Sales; Big Discounts on Stolen Data
Headlines for January have been dominated by revelations of one retailer after another suffering from enormous breaches of personal, and financial data. From the 18th of December 2013 when news of the...
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Chat Friend Finder Apps on Google Play Leak Personal Information
Somewhat controversial websites or apps called chat friend finders, or ID BBS (Bulletin Board System) are spreading widely in Japan. They allow users of well-known communication services like LINE and...
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Vietnamese ‘Adult’ Apps on Google Play Open Gate to SMS Trojans
Malware related to short message services occupies a large portion of today’s Android malware families. These include premium SMS fraud and SMS spying. Such SMS-based malware apps are actively...
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Plasma HTTP Botnet Steals Passwords From Chrome, FileZilla
Last year we reported on the Athena HTTP botnet, which targets Windows XP systems, mostly for distributed denial-of-service attacks. Now we have examined the botnet Plasma HTTP, whose infections seem...
View ArticleProduct Coverage and Mitigation for CVE-2014-0497 (Adobe Flash Player)
On February 4, Adobe released an out-of-band update for Adobe Flash Player. The update addresses a critical remote code execution vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild. The update...
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Flash Zero-Day Vulnerability CVE-2014-0497 Lasts 84 Days
On February 4, Adobe released an out-of-band security update addressing a critical remote code execution vulnerability that is currently being exploited in the wild, according to the vendor’s blog...
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January 2014 #SecChat Wrap-up — Threat Predictions
Threats seem to be top of mind for the masses of late—with three large-scale attacks on major brands already this year, potentially compromising the financial data and identity of millions. And things...
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Careto Worldwide Malware Attack Unmasked
On Monday Kaspersky Labs announced the discovery of a large number of malware infections across large parts of the globe. Kaspersky has named this attack Careto, after what appears to be an internal...
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Examining Your Very Own Sefnit Trojan
Most malware is created for economic purposes. To name just a few of our reports and blogs on this topic, we have written about Cybercrime Exposed, stolen data, and the Target point-of-sale malware....
View ArticleProduct Coverage and Mitigation for CVE-2014-0322 (Microsoft Internet Explorer)
On February 19, Microsoft released Security Advisory (2934088) for Microsoft Internet Explorer. This vulnerability was previously reported, by 3rd parties, during the 2nd week of February 2014....
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Internet Explorer Zero Day Offers Unusual Case Study
While analyzing a recent Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2014-0322 (containing the Flash sample hash b9c9dab0fd30418884800afebbaba4d99f4526ef0c9a47972a20ab20fed0a06d), we noticed the...
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