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Yearly Archives: 2007
A Look Back at 2007
It’s been a great year for McAfee, and I’m already looking forward to 2008. A couple weeks ago during our internal holiday celebrations I told our employees that if you gathered 1000 CEOs of technology companies in a room, you’d have a hard time finding one as proud as I am about the company I Read more…
Benazir Bhutto Assassination: New Avenue for Spreading Malware
A few weeks back we blogged about malware-laced codecs embedded in various Blogspot domains. Today within hours after the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, malware authors have started capitalizing on this news to spread a new fake codec. This time it is purported to be an assassination video of the former PM. Read more…
On the path to cross platform exploits
Occasionally we find PC malware that can have an effect on mobile phones or vice versa. The W32/Mobler worm installs SymbOS/MultiDropper.CC to any Windows system it infects. The Symbian malware has no effect on the PC. Similarly SymbOS/Multidropper.CC installs W32/Mobler to the memory card. The mobile version is arguably more effective as inserting a memory Read more…
The Heart of McAfee
In the midst of the holiday season and heading toward a new year, as many focus on giving back to others in need, I’d like to share a few examples of how our employees are making a difference in their local communities. Across the United States, McAfee employees took part in our November “Virtual Food Read more…
Morphing (Your Own) Documents into 2008
For a long time, we have seen worms masquerading as media and document files (commonly targeting MS Word), movies or folder icons. This is an old skool tactic that remains very popular in South East Asia, often seen in the Indonesian-origin W32/Rontokbro family. They often used file names associated with pornography or news headlines enticing Read more…
Couriers- “You are the weakest link!”
Tis the season to be greedy –at least that’s what a couple of New York City thieves thought the other night when they stole an entire 18-wheeler FedEx truck containing somewhere around $1M in valuables. What might go overlooked is the priceless corporate data that could possibly be on that truck as well. We constantly Read more…
… and a Happy Nuwar!
Continuing to capitalize on the holiday season theme, Nuwar is up to a new trick. Or rather a new old e-card trick. You may receive a New Year greeting E-mail like this:  And if you follow the link (don’t) it currently takes you to a no-frills download-and-infect-your-computer-yourself Web page: Needless to say, your New Read more…
Merry Christmas, Nuwar Style
With Christmas upon us, the bad guys behind Nuwar (a.k.a. Storm Worm) couldn’t miss the opportunity. Here is an example of an e-mail you may receive: Â If you follow the link (please, don’t!), you’ll be greeted like this: Â By this time, of course, a not adequately protected computer would already be infected by Read more…
Rootkits in China Part 1
The term “rootkit” was originally used to refer to toolkits used by root privileged users. This definition has evolved over time. Nowadays, the term rootkit refers to backdoor programs that run with elevated privileges and that are designed to evade detection by users, administrators and rootkit detection software. Rootkits first appeared in China in 2001 Read more…
Closing the Corporate Citizenship Gap
Since May, I have enjoyed the opportunity to share McAfee’s overall approach to corporate responsibility and offer specific examples of our own initiatives. Every now and again, it is important to step back and look at the bigger picture of societal issues and how our commitments compare to those of other companies. Yesterday, I had Read more…