On February 4, Adobe released an out-of-band update for Adobe Flash Player. The update addresses a critical remote code execution vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild. The upd
Author: McAfee Labs
Last year we reported on the Athena HTTP botnet, which targets Windows XP systems, mostly for distributed denial-of-service attacks. Now we have examined the botnet Plasma HTTP, whose infections se
Malware related to short message services occupies a large portion of today’s Android malware families. These include premium SMS fraud and SMS spying. Such SMS-based malware apps are activel
Somewhat controversial websites or apps called chat friend finders, or ID BBS (Bulletin Board System) are spreading widely in Japan. They allow users of well-known communication services like LINE