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How to Stop the Popups
McAfee is tracking an increase in the use of deceptive popups that mislead some users into taking action, while annoying...
How To Use McAfee ATP to Protect Against Emotet, LemonDuck and PowerMiner
Introduction This blog describes how McAfee ATP (Adaptive Threat Protection) rules are used within McAfee Endpoint Security products. It will...
How Visiting a Trusted Site Could Infect Your Employees
The Artful and Dangerous Dynamics of Watering Hole Attacks A group of researchers recently published findings of an exploitation of multiple...
How we’re #InspiringInclusion at McAfee for International Women’s Day 2024
International Women’s Day 2024’s theme, #InspireInclusion, reminds us that genuine change requires going beyond individual actions. It’s about fostering an...
Hunting for Blues – the WSL Plan 9 Protocol BSOD
Windows Subsystem for Linux Plan 9 Protocol Research Overview This is the final blog in the McAfee research series trilogy...
HVACking: Understanding the Delta Between Security and Reality
The McAfee Labs Advanced Threat Research team is committed to uncovering security issues in both software and hardware to help...
HydraCrypt Variant of Ransomware Distributed by Angler Exploit Kit
McAfee Labs recently came across the new ransomware variant HydraCrypt. Like some previous ransomware variants, HydraCrypt is distributed using the Angler...
I Smell a RAT: Java Botnet Found in the Wild
Most of today’s malware works on Windows and its apps, because it can affect a lot of people around the...
iBanking Mobile Trojan Poses as Facebook Token Generator
Mobile banking Trojans have usually pretended to be security applications (for example, Zitmo) or legitimate banking apps (FakeToken or FkSite a.k.a....
iDroid Bot for Sale Taps Into Mobile Wallets
During recent weeks we’ve seen a new botnet kit advertised in several Russian forums. The iDroidbot costs US$1,500 and targets...
IE Scripting Flaw Still a Threat to Unpatched Systems: Analyzing CVE-2018-8653
Microsoft recently patched a critical flaw in Internet Explorer’s scripting engine that could lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability...
If You Deploy Only Antivirus, It Will Cost You More and Make You Less Secure
Everyone’s looking to shave their IT budgets, manage fewer vendors and streamline. The plethora of low cost and sometimes free...
Imposter Netflix Chrome Extension Dupes 100k Users
Authored by Oliver Devane, Vallabh Chole, and Aayush Tyagi McAfee has recently observed several malicious Chrome Extensions which, once installed,...
Improve Protection Against Cyberattacks Through Shared Threat Intelligence
This blog post was written by Rick Simon. At the RSA Conference 2016 in San Francisco, Chris Young, GM and...
In Memory of Peter Szor
Nov. 20: Update with details of memorial service at the end of this post. Earlier this week the security industry...
In NTDLL I Trust – Process Reimaging and Endpoint Security Solution Bypass
Process Reimaging Overview The Windows Operating System has inconsistencies in how it determines process image FILE_OBJECT locations, which impacts non-EDR...
Inclusion Drives Innovation: An Employee’s Perspective on Being Differently Abled
By Karla Jackson, Digital Media Specialist, McAfee “With Our People at The Heart, We Are McAfee.” If you make your...
Information Operations an Integral Part of Cyberwarfare
Weapons and the skills to use them are not the only decisive elements in warfare. Rhetoric and imagery are important,...
