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For the last few years, especially since the public revelation of Operation Aurora, the targeted successful intrusion into Google and two dozen other companies, I have often been asked by our worldwide customers if they should worry about such sophisticated penetrations themselves or if that is a [...]
Identity theft is big news on the Internet. The general business world, the world of finance, and social networks are regularly attacked by crooks or self-styled hacktivists who use, sell, or just disseminate credentials and private data. But the cybercrime world itself is also periodically targeted by malicious agents. In this type of attack, “carding” [...]
Zeus, also known as ZBot, is one of best-known malware in the industry. The main purpose of this malware is to steal banking credentials, allowing attackers to commit electronic fraud. Until 2010, Zeus existed only for personal computers since this platform was (and still is) the principal medium for electronic transactions. However, due to the [...]
In 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto had an idea: a digital currency that could be used without bank or central entities, based on the trust the users had for each other. With the help of public-key cryptography and the Internet, members of this peer-to-peer network could tell if a user was legitimate and allow transactions from and to [...]
McAfee Labs is pleased to announce the availability of our “Fake Alert” Stinger – an improved Stinger tool with aggressive generic content targeted at enhanced detection and remediation of fake alert based threats.
In our efforts to provide the best of protection for our customers against rogue security products or fake alert type malware – McAfee [...]
ZeuS, also known as ZBot, is one of most well-known malware in the industry. The main purpose of this malware is to steal information, primarily banking credentials that are used to perform electronic fraud. Until 2010, ZeuS existed only for personal computers since this platform was (and still is) the principal medium to perform electronic [...]
In 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto had and idea: A digital currency that could be used without bank or central entities, based on the trust the users had for each other. With the help of public key cryptography and the Internet, members of this peer-to peer network could tell if a user vas a legitimate one and allow [...]
McAfee Labs is pleased to announce the availability of our “Fake Alert” Stinger – an improved Stinger tool with aggressive generic content targeted at enhanced detection and remediation of fake alert based threats.
In our efforts to provide the best of protection for our customers against rogue security products or fake alert type malware – McAfee [...]
On March 4th of this year, exactly 20 months to the day of a similar incident on US Independence Day in 2009, a botnet based out of South Korea launched Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against 40 sites affiliated with South Korean government, military and civilian critical infrastructure as well as U.S. Forces Korea [...]
This week the Sorbonne University and the French Department of Justice hosted a meeting, the World and Development Institute (IMODEV) International Cybercrime, CyberThreat and CyberFraud Seminar. The audience heard eminent speakers including Pierre Joxe, a Member of the French Constitutional Council and former socialist Minister of the Interior, and Jacques Godfrain, the writer of the so-called [...]