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July 30, 2010
While some members of our Threat Research group are attending talks at the Black Hat Briefings, the rest of the team is back at our...
May 19, 2010
An ongoing campaign where malware distributors use email spam to deliver dangerous programs to unwitting victims has begun to change its tune, switching...
April 29, 2010
If you’re a customer or an employee of McAfee, chances are, you’re having a rough week. The company published a false positive, or...
April 27, 2010
For the past couple of weeks, owners of Web sites have been hit with a wave of attacks that surreptitiously infect unsuspecting visitors...
March 03, 2010
All day, I’ve been getting reports from my Twitter-using friends and acquaintances that they’ve been receiving tweets of short URLs. I took a...
January 29, 2010
Yesterday was Data Privacy Day, which is supposed to remind us all that keeping our digital secrets a secret is important and necessary. To commemorate...
January 22, 2010
The Zbot keylogger campaign-of-the-month targets users of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) with a message that claims to be an update notification for users of the...
January 21, 2010
A new variant of the Koobface social networking worm is sending social networkers links that lead to fake videos supposedly posted by the beloved cartoon...
January 15, 2010
While I’ve touched on the subject of World of Warcraft phishers (and the Trojans they attempt to spread) a handful of times in the past...
January 11, 2010
Spammers hawking “fun videos” have been worming their way into Google Groups, the global message board Google built on the skeleton of the old Usenet...
January 04, 2010
It’s not clear whether the past year will go down in history as a particularly bad year for malware, but one thing is certain: It...
December 16, 2009
Security Websites are buzzing with news that a new zero-day exploit against Adobe Reader and Acrobat is circulating today, causing computers to become infected with...
December 14, 2009
The gang of malware distributors who are currently flooding the Internet with bogus Facebook “Update Tool,” CDC “H1N1 Flu Vaccination Profile,” and IRS “Tax Statement”...
December 11, 2009
Over the past several months, we’ve seen Koobface steadily progress in its ability to infect systems with malware. In our latest tests, we’ve found that...
December 07, 2009
A week since the file-sharing clearinghouse Mininova changed its business model and deleted links to copyrighted material being shared over the peer-to-peer Bittorrent network, malware...
