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McAfee Labs Report Reveals New Mobile App Collusion Threats

Delayed Software Updates Enable Cybercriminals to Exploit Mobile Apps; Pinkslipbot Trojan Returns with New Capabilities     NEWS HIGHLIGHTS McAfee Labs identifies more than 5,000 versions of 21 consumer mobile apps containing colluding code capable of a variety of malicious activities New strain of Pinkslipbot Trojan features anti-analysis and multi-layered encryption New ransomware grew 24% …

McAfee Labs™ Finds Mobile Apps Left Vulnerable for Months 

Report finds 18 of 25 Top Mobile Apps Reported Vulnerable in September 2014 Remain Unpatched; Unsecured Web Sessions Leave Millions Open to Man-in-the-Middle Attacks   India, 24 February 2015 – Intel® Security today released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: February 2015, including assessments of the mobile threat landscape and the failure of mobile app developers …

McAfee Labs report sees mobile malware target trust in early 2014

Cybercriminals Exploit Flappy Bird Game’s Popularity, other Trusted App and Service Vulnerabilities India – June 24, 2014 – McAfee Labs today released the McAfee Labs Threats Report: June 2014, revealing mobile malware tactics that abuse the popularity, features, and vulnerabilities of legitimate apps and services, including malware-infested clones masquerading as the popular mobile game Flappy …

McAfee labs Q4 report reveals techniques used in high-profile data breaches

Underground Market Supports Point-of-Sale Cybercrime from Coding to Monetization; Digitally Signed Malware Triples in 2013 through Content Distribution Networks India – March 10, 2014 – McAfee Labs today released the McAfee Labs Threats Report: Fourth Quarter 2013, highlighting the role of the “dark web” malware industry as a key enabler of the high-profile point-of-sale (POS) …