Last week, as I was preparing for the RSA Security Conference, the McAfee Labs Threats Report was published. Although preoccupied with my product launch presentation, I realize the information in the report is worth the break because it adds credence to my work-in-progress presentation on our new Comprehensive Malware Protection (CMP) strategy. CMP is essentially Read more…
Tags: Autorun, CMP, Comprehensive Malware Protection, malware, McAfee Labs, Network Access, Network Security, Rootkits
Recently we have seen a spike in a Visual Basic 6-compiled AutoRun worm family. The family is both client- and server-side polymorphic. (For more on this family, refer to our VIL and Advisory entries.) The W32/Autorun.worm.aaeh family usually gets on a victim’s machine through email spam, Blacole drive-by downloads, or downloads by BackDoor-FJW. From a behavioral Read more…
Tags: Autorun, RAR, RC4 encryption, thumb drive, VB6, Visual Basic 6, worm, ZIP
Almost exactly one year ago, Google announced the addition of a “new layer to Android security,” a service codenamed Bouncer that was intended to provide automated scanning of the Android Market for potentially malicious software. However, as my colleague Jimmy Shah wrote in a previous blog post, Bouncer has not been enough to keep all Read more…
Tags: Android Malware, Android Market, Autorun, Google Play, phishing, Ssucl
Malicious worms are found infecting customers through-out the year. They keep evolving to evade the Anti Virus detections. They add junk codes or come up with new custom packer, yet achieve their full functionality and reward their developers. We have seen earlier how different types of malware use chat windows to download and spread across Read more…
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