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‘Tis the Season for Scams
Co-authored by: Sriram P and Deepak Setty ‘Tis the season for scams. Well, honestly, it’s always scam season somewhere. In...
‘Operation Sharpshooter’ Targets Global Defense, Critical Infrastructure
This post was written with contributions from the McAfee Advanced Threat Research team. The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team...
‘McAfee Labs Threats Report’ Highlights Cryptojacking, Blockchain, Mobile Security Issues
As we look over some of the key issues from the newly released McAfee Labs Threats Report, we read terms such as voice assistant, blockchain, billing fraud, and cryptojacking.
‘Cat-Loving’ Mobile Ransomware Operates With Control Panel
Recently the McAfee Labs Mobile Malware Research team found a sample of ransomware for Android with botnet capabilities and a...
‘BadRabbit’ Ransomware Burrows Into Russia, Ukraine
This post was researched and written by Christiaan Beek, Tim Hux, David Marcus, Charles McFarland, Douglas McKee, and Raj Samani. McAfee...
Zloader With a New Infection Technique
This blog was written by Kiran Raj & Kishan N. Introduction In the last few years, Microsoft Office macro malware...
Zeus Crimeware Toolkit
The Zeus botnet has been in the wild since 2007 and it is among the top botnets active today. This...
ZeroAccess Rootkit Launched by Signed Installers
Digital certificates and certificate authorities have been much in the news recently. Attacks–such as those used by Stuxnet, Duqu, and...
Zcrypt Expands Reach as ‘Virus Ransomware’
McAfee has recently seen a new kind of ransomware–Zcrypt—that can self-replicate. This “virus ransomware” arrives via email in a malicious...
