In the past decade, the security industry has seen a constant rise in the volume of malware and attacks associated with them. Malware are constantly evolving to become more complex and sophisticated. For example, Unique malware samples broke the 75 million mark in 2011 – Network World 500 malware networks available to launch attacks – Read more…
Tags: advanced persistent threats, APTs, behavior-based detection, botnet, malware, signature-based detection
On May 28, my colleagues Peter Szor and Guilherme Venere posted a blog on Skywiper and listed various key filenames. Since then, I have searched these files, as well as some others that appear to be linked to this threat, in our collections. The following table summarizes these investigations. After I finished creating this table, Read more…
There has been quite a bit of analysis and speculation about the Flamer/Skywiper threat. As we started to analyze this threat, we knew from the very beginning that this was going to be a giant undertaking and potentially very long term. Now we want to pause to help the people we protect visualize the kind Read more…
Tags: advanced persistent threats, antivirus, APT, critical infrastructure, Cybercrime, Data Protection, enterprise, Flamer, global threat intelligence, Identity thieves and cybercriminals, labs, malware, McAfee, McAfee Labs, Mobile, mobile security, Network Security, SkyWiper, social networking
Anyone who has been in information security recently knows that it has gotten easier for cybercriminals to build stealth crimeware. The malware we deal with on a regular basis grows ever more difficult to find, while high-end targeted attacks such as Stuxnet and other advanced persistent threats (APTs, the abbreviation I hate) are using ever Read more…
Tags: advanced persistent threats, APT, crimeware, Cybercrime, Data Protection, Endpoint Protection, identity protection, malware, Network Security, Operation Aurora, rootkit, Rootkits, security, Stuxnet
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