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DDoS Attacks in the Netherlands Reveal Teen Gamers on Troublesome Path
At the end of January, the Netherlands was plagued by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting various financial institutions,...
Deconstructing Amadey’s Latest Multi-Stage Attack and Malware Distribution
Authored by By Yashvi Shah McAfee Labs have identified an increase in Wextract.exe samples, that drop a malware payload at...
Decyphering the Noise Around ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’
The McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) Team has closely followed the attack techniques that have been named Meltdown and Spectre...
DEFCON – Connected Car Security
Sometime in the distant past, that thing in your driveway was a car. However, the “connected car is already the...
Delving Deeply Into a Bitcoin Botnet
Bitcoin is a virtual decentralized currency that was created in 2009 by developer Satoshi Nakamoto, who described the currency in...
Demystifying Blockchain: Sifting Through Benefits, Examples and Choices
You have likely heard that blockchain will disrupt everything from banking to retail to identity management and more. You may...
Despite Decline in Use of Adobe Flash, Vulnerabilities Will Continue to Cause Concern
This post was researched and written by Brook Schoenfield with the assistance of Tim Hux, Abhishek Karnik, Asheer Malhotra, and...
DHCP Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Demystified
CVE-2019-0547 CVE-2019-0547 was the first vulnerability patched by Microsoft this year. The dynamic link library, dhcpcore.dll, which is responsible for...
DHS Accelerates Information Sharing Standards Effort; McAfee to Chair Working Group
This post first appeared at Policy@Intel on March 9. In an effort to accelerate cyber information sharing, and in response...
Did You Check Your Quarantine?!
A cost-effective way to detect targeted attacks in your enterprise While it is easy to get caught up in the...
Did You Forget to Patch Your IP Camera?
IP cameras are usually “purchase, install, and don’t touch” devices. But in the current climate of cyberattacks, they now require...
Digging Into a Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability: CVE-2016-7255
This blog was written by Stanley Zhu. The Windows kernel privilege escalation vulnerability CVE-2016-7255 has received a lot of media...
Digging Into the Nitol DDoS Botnet
Nitol is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet that seems to be small and not widely known. It mostly...
Digging Into the Sandbox-Escape Technique of the Recent PDF Exploit
As promised in our previous blog entry for the recent Adobe Reader PDF zero-day attack, we now offer more technical...
Dissecting Zeus for Android (or Is It Just SMS Spyware?)
Zeus, also known as ZBot, is one of best-known malware in the industry. The main purpose of this malware is...
Distinctive Campaign Evolution of Pikabot Malware
Authored by Anuradha and Preksha Introduction PikaBot is a malicious backdoor that has been active since early 2023. Its modular...
Do You Have Blind Spots? McAfee Welcomes Check Your Blind Spots Bus Tour
A bus, virtual reality, and conversations around inclusion. How do all these fit together? The answer: CEO Action’s Check Your...
Does Anyone Really Care About Mobile Security?
I’ve attended Mobile World Congress a number of times and it is fair to say the concept of the show...
