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Should I Worry About AVGater, Which Exploits Some Security Products?
This blog was written by Brook Schoenfield. On November 10, a researcher reported the vulnerability AVGater, which affects some antimalware...
Don’t Substitute CVSS for Risk: Scoring System Inflates Importance of CVE-2017-3735
This blog was co-written by Brook Schoenfield and Damian Quiroga. I am a wry observer of vulnerability announcements. CVE-2017-3735—which can...
What I’m Thankful for This Year: Combining Passion & Career
By Philip, Program Manager, People First Office Back in April, I started my new role at McAfee as the Program...
Malware Mines, Steals Cryptocurrencies From Victims
How’s your Bitcoin balance? Interested in earning more? The value of cybercurrency is going up. One way to increase your...
Lazarus Cybercrime Group Moves to Mobile Platform
When it comes to describing cyberattacks, the word sophisticated is used a lot. Whether to explain yet another “advanced” campaign...
Android Malware Appears Linked to Lazarus Cybercrime Group
This blog was written by Inhee Han. The McAfee Mobile Research team recently examined a new threat, Android malware that...
IoT Devices: The Gift that Keeps on Giving… to Hackers
McAfee Advanced Threat Research on Most Hackable Gifts You’ve probably noticed the recent increase in Internet connected drones, digital assistants,...
New Android Malware Found in 144 GooglePlay Apps
McAfee’s Mobile Research team has found a new Android malware in 144 “Trojanized” applications on Google Play. We named this...
Supporting Our Military Veterans at McAfee
By Dawson McPherson, Talent & Communications Coordinator Over the past week, McAfee employees around the world paused to recognize and...
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...
Threat Group APT28 Slips Office Malware into Doc Citing NYC Terror Attack
This blog post was co-written by Michael Rea. During our monitoring of activities around the APT28 threat group, McAfee Advanced...
Self-Signed Certificates Can Be Secure, So Why Ban Them?
This blog was co-written by Brook Schoenfield and Ramnath Venugopalan. In many organizations the use of self-signed certificates is forbidden...
Pirate Versions of Popular Apps Infiltrate Google Play via Virtualization
The McAfee Mobile Research team recently found pirated applications of popular apps distributed on the Google Play store. A pirated...
Celebrating Halloween – McAfee Style
By Dawson McPherson, Talent & Communications Coordinator Two weeks ago, I stepped into the McAfee Plano office with a mixture...
Expiro Malware Is Back and Even Harder to Remove
File infector malware adds malicious code to current files. This makes removal tricky because deleting infections results in the loss...
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...
Configuring McAfee ENS and VSE to Prevent Macroless Code Execution in Office Apps
Microsoft Office macros are a popular method of distributing malware. Users can defend themselves against macro attacks by disabling macros....
Code Execution Technique Takes Advantage of Dynamic Data Exchange
Email phishing campaigns are a popular social engineering technique among hackers. The idea is simple: Craft an email that looks...
