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McAfee Labs Threats Report: April 2021

In this edition, we present new findings in our traditional threat statistical categories – as well as our usual malware, sectors, and vectors – imparted in a new, enhanced digital presentation that’s more easily consumed and interpreted.

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Update: NGRBot Posing as Skype Drops Ransomware With Fake McAfee Logo

This blog was updated on October 15. See the end of this file. We recently received a sample of the...

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Multiplatform Fake AV Uses Different GUIs

Since the beginning of October we have seen a variant of fake antivirus malware that belongs to the FakeRean family...

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Android Phones Vulnerable to Loss of Data, Apps

Recently security researcher Ravi Borgaonkar discussed a vulnerability that caused a Samsung Galaxy SIII to return to a factory reset...

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2012 Online Safety Survey – Majority Of Americans Do Not Feel Completely Safe Online

From tweens and teens to silver surfers, more people are jumping onto multiple Internet connected devices every day.  It’s very...

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NGRBot Spreads Via Chat

NGRBot is a worm that propagates through chat messengers, the Internet Relay Chat channel, social networking sites etc. It steals...

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‘Police Ransomware’ Preys on Guilty Consciences

“Police ransomware” is big business, generating millions of euros for organized criminal groups. In May, at Europol’s headquarters in The...

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McAfee Most Dangerous Celebrity 2012 – And The Riskiest Are…

Emma Watson has replaced Heidi Klum as McAfee’s 2012 Most Dangerous Celebrity to search for online. For the sixth year...

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Malicious Websites – The Web is a Dangerous Place

McAfee’s latest Threats Report shows a growth in malicious websites replacing botnets as the primary infection mechanism. This means that...

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Facebook Bot Spreads Through Chat Messengers [Updated]

Update from Facebook: The Facebook security team been actively tracking this botnet and providing McAfee AV to the victims (via...

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AutoIt and Malware: What’s the Connection?

During the last couple of weeks I’ve come across three malware samples packed using compiled AutoIt scripts, so I decided...

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