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McAfee Team Members Give Back During Pandemic by 3D Printing PPE
Behind the scenes, McAfee secures critical information to protect what matters most. But a visible side of the company is...
McAfee Team Members Share Their Virtual Onboarding Experiences
At McAfee, ensuring our new team members are well prepared and supported for their roles is a top priority. From...
McAfee Teammates Share How They #EmbraceEquity This International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is a time for us to celebrate the achievements and contributions of women at McAfee and around...
McAfee Teammates Share How They’ll Help #BreakTheBias this International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day serves as an important reminder that each and every one of us plays a role in recognizing...
McAfee Teams With Industry, Law Enforcement to Thwart ‘Shade’ Ransomware
McAfee, Europol, Kaspersky Lab, and Dutch police have taken down the Shade ransomware botnet and captured encryption keys to unlock...
McAfee Uncovers Operation Honeybee, a Malicious Campaign Targeting Humanitarian Aid Groups
This post was written with contributions from Jessica Saavedra-Morales, Thomas Roccia, and Asheer Malhotra. McAfee Advanced Threat Research analysts have...
McAfee Values Its Working Mothers Globally
This Mother’s Day, and every day, McAfee recognizes all the hardworking mothers across our global workforce. We continue to make...
McAfee VP Shares His Four Pledges for a Healthier Lifestyle
After experiencing a health scare that changed his life, VP of Technology Services, Paul, vowed to make incremental changes by...
McAfee Warriors – Building a Community Inclusive of Military Veterans
By Dawson McPherson, Talent & Communications Coordinator As we make our way into the month of November, it’s easy to...
McAfee’s Women in Security Offer New Grads Career Insights
Launching your career is an exciting milestone, one that can also be nerve-wracking though. Chances are questions like What should...
Meet ‘Tox’: Ransomware for the Rest of Us
The packaging of malware and malware-construction kits for cybercrime “consumers” has been a long-running trend. Various turnkey kits that cover...
Microsoft Cortana Allows Browser Navigation Without Login: CVE-2018-8253
A locked Windows 10 device with Cortana enabled on the lock screen allows an attacker with physical access to the device to do two kinds of unauthorized browsing.
Microsoft Kills Potential Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Office (CVE-2017-8630)
Recently the McAfee IPS Research Team informed Microsoft about a potential remote code execution vulnerability in Office 2016 that McAfee...
Microsoft’s Edge over Popups (and Google Chrome)
Following up on our previous blog, How to Stop the Popups, McAfee Labs saw a sharp decrease in the number...
Microsoft’s June Patch Kills Potential CFG Bypass
After applying Microsoft’s June patch, we noticed some interesting changes that prevent a security bypass of Windows’ Control Flow Guard...
Mirai Botnet Creates Army of IoT Orcs
This post was based on analysis by Yashashree Gund and RaviKant Tiwari. There is a lot of speculation in the...
Mirai, BrickerBot, Hajime Attack a Common IoT Weakness
This blog post was written by Rick Simon. We know that devices in the Internet of Things make enticing targets...
Missing Hotel Room Key? Try Your Phone
If you are like me, there are times when you will misplace your hotel key. Times when you’re switching a...
Misuse of DocuSign Email Addresses Leads to Phishing Campaign
DocuSign, which provides electronic signatures and digital transaction management, reported that email addresses were stolen by an unknown party on...
Mobile Malware Plays Hide and Seek
Android/Obad.A is mobile malware that has been described as very complex. Truly it is one of the most complex we’ve...
Mobile NFC Features Raise Security Concerns
Yesterday, at the Web 2.0 Summit, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt presented the Nexus S. This wasn’t just about a new...
Model Hacking ADAS to Pave Safer Roads for Autonomous Vehicles
The last several years have been fascinating for those of us who have been eagerly observing the steady move towards...
MoqHao evolution: New variants start automatically right after installation
Authored by Dexter Shin MoqHao is a well-known Android malware family associated with the Roaming Mantis threat actor group first...
MoqHao Related Android Spyware Targeting Japan and Korea Found on Google Play
The McAfee mobile research team has found a new type of Android malware for the MoqHao phishing campaign (a.k.a. XLoader...
More Capable IoT Botnets to Emerge as the ‘Pros’ Enter the Fray
On the heels of severe distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, we see new botnets emerging that are powered by...
More Details on "Operation Aurora"
Earlier today, George Kurtz posted an entry, ‘Operation “Aurora” Hit Google, Others’,  on the McAfee’s Security Insight blog The purpose...
More Japanese Chat Apps on Google Play Steal Phone Numbers
In two recent blogs, McAfee Labs described Japanese and Korean Android apps on Google Play that steal a mobile device’s...
