“Money mules” may be unsuspecting Americans who act as shipping managers, do the dirty work for the bad guy, and open bank accounts, too. Sometimes the mule may be foreign, traveling to the United States specifically to open bank accounts. Mules often get hooked into a “small business” or employment that is a function of a Read more…
Tags: bank fraud, identity protection, money laundering, stolen cards
I had been doing some work on the computer and was logged in to McAfee Family Protection under my account. I was looking for something on YouTube when I came across a video of a tired puppy falling asleep in his bowl of water. It was so cute I thought I would show it to my Read more…
Tags: adult online content, McAfee Family Protection, you tube videos
Yesterday we discovered a new Zeus campaign. Most of the messages associated with the new spam campaign are linked to the Asprox botnet. This time, the focus is on FedEx. Most of the attachments start with either FedExDoc[randomnumbers].exe or FedExInvoice[randomnumbers].exe. Those attachments are recognized as the Bredolab Trojan, which will download the Zeus component. This Read more…
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There is huge earning potential and prizes from the new McAfee Rewards program!! McAfee SecurityAlliance partner sales reps and sales engineers: Do not miss out! Register today at www.McAfeeRewards.com! It’s simple: Sell McAfee Earn points Redeem points toward fabulous stuff! We have McAfee Rewards participants frequently cashing in for huge prizes! Flat screen TVs! $5,000 Read more…
Tags: Alex Thurber, thurber
The Anti-Malware engine is a critical and core piece of the McAfee anti-malware solutions. As with any core technology, the engine must be rock-solid stable, fast, and functionally rich. A new McAfee Labs whitepaper outlines these engine technologies and values, covering both endpoint and gateway uses. Beyond introductions to malware detection methodologies–ranging from exact detection Read more…
Three weeks ago a ‘mysterious’ new jailbreak technique was posted to jailbreakme.com. Research to date indicates that this technique leverages two distinct vulnerabilities to gain access to devices. The first issue exploited is a FreeType CFF font handling issue, exploitable via MobileSafari. The second issue exploited is an IOSurface framework issue that allows for privilege Read more…
The McAfee Cash for Clunkers campaign offers incentives to McAfee Elite partners and their reps & SE’s for certain competitive swaps in North America. Partner offer: Up to 60% off MSRP + deal reg margin! (Partners simply register the deal with the word ‘clunker’ in the Opportunity Name field and then ask for a 60% Read more…
Tags: Alex Thurber, thurber
According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there have been 371 data breaches that have exposed 12,871,065 records so far this year in the United States. NetworkWorld reports that businesses suffered the most breaches, making up 35% of the total. Medical and healthcare services accounted for 29.1% of breaches. The government and military made up Read more…
Tags: data breach
This blog was updated at 1.15 pm Pacific time on Aug. 26. McAfee Labs has detected a new strain of spam in the wild that is not only a sophisticated forgery of a Newegg purchase receipt, but there is also some indication that the botnet may be attempting to abuse Newegg’s password reset system to Read more…
As I’ve mentioned, we believe that an optimized security program has three key elements. The first which I discussed in an earlier post is Global Threat Intelligence. The second key element of building an optimized security posture is the deployment of multi-layered defenses. This doesn’t mean deploying a different security product for each threat that Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Security Connected