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New Labs Report: ‘Analyzing Project Blitzkrieg’
Project Blitzkrieg, a current attack on US financial institutions, got a lot of media attention following a blog posting by...
Narilam Trojan Targets Iranian Financial Software
Iranian infrastructure has been on the radar of cyberattackers for a couple of years. We have already witnessed organized and...
The Connected Home – Introducing Little Red Boxes…
This will be old news to those of you who took the time to visit McAfee Focus 2012 , but for...
A Quick Analysis of the Flash Player Opcode-Verifying Code Execution Vulnerability
On October 12, McAfee Labs learned of proof-of-concept code exploiting a newly patched Flash Player vulnerability. Adobe had patched this...
Update: NGRBot Posing as Skype Drops Ransomware With Fake McAfee Logo
This blog was updated on October 15. See the end of this file. We recently received a sample of the...
Multiplatform Fake AV Uses Different GUIs
Since the beginning of October we have seen a variant of fake antivirus malware that belongs to the FakeRean family...
Android Phones Vulnerable to Loss of Data, Apps
Recently security researcher Ravi Borgaonkar discussed a vulnerability that caused a Samsung Galaxy SIII to return to a factory reset...
NGRBot Spreads Via Chat
NGRBot is a worm that propagates through chat messengers, the Internet Relay Chat channel, social networking sites etc. It steals...
‘Police Ransomware’ Preys on Guilty Consciences
“Police ransomware” is big business, generating millions of euros for organized criminal groups. In May, at Europol’s headquarters in The...
Facebook Bot Spreads Through Chat Messengers [Updated]
Update from Facebook: The Facebook security team been actively tracking this botnet and providing McAfee AV to the victims (via...
