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McAfee Labs Threats Report: April 2021

In this edition, we present new findings in our traditional threat statistical categories – as well as our usual malware, sectors, and vectors – imparted in a new, enhanced digital presentation that’s more easily consumed and interpreted.

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Evolution of Android Malware: IRCBot Joins the Party

We all know how fast the smart phone market is growing. Along with it, the complexity and the numbers of...

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‘Android/NotCompatible’ Looks Like Piece of PC Botnet

A lot of recent attacks on Android users are attributed to fake websites of popular applications such as Cut the...

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Pastebin Shares Botnet Source Code

Few days back, we found another Pastebin entry that contains a source which looks to be malicious botnet code. As...

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Mobile and Phishing – Why It’s More Dangerous

Phishing occurs when scammers send emails that appear to have been sent by legitimate, trusted organizations in order to lure...

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CVE-2012-0158 Exploit in the Wild

Since last week, we have seen many specially crafted files exploiting CVE-2012-0158, a vulnerability in MSCOMCTL.OCX in Microsoft Office and...

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Latest SpyEye Botnet Active and Cheaper

On April 16, we found a Pastebin entry selling the latest version of the infamous SpyEye botnet (Version 1.3.48) for...

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Digging Into the Nitol DDoS Botnet

Nitol is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet that seems to be small and not widely known. It mostly...

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Hacker Leaves Online Trail, Loses Anonymity

Since March 20, the @Anonw0rmer Twitter account has been silent. Its owner, w0rmer, is known as a member of the...

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Android Malware Promises Video While Stealing Contacts

Recently we discovered a new Android Trojan in the official Google Play market that displays a video downloaded from the...

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Darkshell DDOS Botnet Evolves With Variants

Darkshell is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet targeting Chinese websites. It was found in 2011 and was first...

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