Mcafee Quarterly Threat Report

[cruelsister]

For any interested, Mcafee Labs publishes Quarterly a report that sums up threats and various other malware items of interest. It is actually a good, albeit extensive, read for those with a need to know.

One point of caution: Mcafee, like many other Security outfits, does not distinguish between "new" and "unique" when enumerating how many samples they detected over a period of time. So one will often see new samples in the millions, where the "new" are just slight modifications of the same old thing (ie Ransomware with different contact info, downloaders with different conect IP's, backdoors with differing carriers, various malware with verbose code being nopped out a bit at a time). But it does sound scarier stating "10 million new samples found" rather then "10 million variants of the same old thing found".

Enough of a rant- the Mcafee pdf can be found here:

http://www.mcafee.com/au/resources/reports/rp-quarterly-threat-q3-2013.pdf

 

[SilverLee92]

I always read these reports as they are very informative.
I haven't seen such a scarier place then the Deep/Dark Web like it says that European Citizens can purchase firearms and can even hire a hitman. Creeeeepy.

 

[3link9]

Interesting report, Especially the Deep web part, That hitman network freaks me out.

 

[illumination]

It is interesting, also looks a lot like this one

http://malwaretips.com/Thread-McAfee-lab-threat-reports-third-quarter-2013

 

[cruelsister]

Yikes! That one totally slipped by me. I guess it was a report so nice it had to be posted twice.

(Apologies)

 

[illumination]

Yikes! That one totally slipped by me. I guess it was a report so nice it had to be posted twice.

(Apologies)

No apologies necessary, as im prone to do this every once in awhile myself..