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Phishing Attack Replaces Android Banking Apps With Malware
Mobile devices are also increasingly being used to manage a critical and important asset for all of us: our money....
Delving Deeply Into a Bitcoin Botnet
Bitcoin is a virtual decentralized currency that was created in 2009 by developer Satoshi Nakamoto, who described the currency in...
The Internet and Today’s Youth: Protecting our Future
May has been another very busy month packed with events and plenty of travel! I spent a few days with...
Bank Account Logins for Sale, Courtesy of Citadel Botnet
Financial theft is one of the most lucrative forms of cybercrime. Malware authors continue to deliver sophisticated tools and techniques...
Travnet Botnet Controls Victims With Remote Admin Tool
The malicious binary behind the Travnet botnet has been updated. The new code has a new compression algorithm, steals the...
Emerging ‘Stack Pivoting’ Exploits Bypass Common Security
[This blog was primarily written by Xiaoning Li of McAfee Labs, with assistance from Peter Szor of McAfee Labs.] In...
Tracking PDF Usage Poses a Security Problem
Update on May 2 Adobe has confirmed this vulnerability and has scheduled a patch release for May 14. Looking...
Travnet Botnet Steals Huge Amount of Sensitive Data
In a McAfee Labs blog by my colleague Vikas Taneja last month, he discussed high-level functioning in the malware Travnet....
One-Click Fraud Variant on Google Play in Japan Steals User Data
Last week McAfee Labs reported a series of “one-click fraud” malware on Google Play in Japan. We have been monitoring...
Turkish ‘Delete Virus’ Targets Facebook Users
Facebook continues to be a favorite target for attackers to spread fake wall-post messages or fake scams. Most of the...