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McAfee ATR Aids Police in Arrest of Rubella & Dryad Office Macro Builder
Everyday thousands of people receive emails with malicious attachments in their email inbox. Disguised as a missed payment or an...
McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – Crescendo
Episode 4: Crescendo This is the final installment of the McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) analysis of Sodinokibi and its...
McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – Follow The Money
Episode 3: Follow the Money This is the third installment of the McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) analysis of Sodinokibi...
McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – The All-Stars
Episode 2: The All-Stars Analyzing Affiliate Structures in Ransomware-as-a-Service Campaigns This is the second installment of the McAfee Advanced Threat...
McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – What The Code Tells Us
Episode 1: What the Code Tells Us McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research team (ATR) observed a new ransomware family in the...
McAfee ATR Launches Education-Inspired Capture the Flag Contest!
McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research team just completed its second annual capture the flag (CTF) contest for internal employees. Based on tremendous...
McAfee ATR Thinks in Graphs
0. Introduction John Lambert, a distinguished researcher specializing in threat intelligence at Microsoft, once said these words that changed perspectives:...
McAfee ATR Threat Report: A Quick Primer on Cuba Ransomware
Executive Summary Cuba ransomware is an older ransomware, that has recently undergone some development. The actors have incorporated the leaking of victim data to increase its impact...
McAfee COVID-19 Report Reveals Pandemic Threat Evolution
The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team today published the McAfee® Labs COVID-19 Threats Report, July 2020. In this “Special Edition”...
McAfee Defenders Blog: Reality Check for your Defenses
Welcome to reality Ever since I started working in IT Security more than 10 years ago, I wondered, what helps...
McAfee Defender’s Blog: Cuba Ransomware Campaign
Cuba Ransomware Overview Over the past year, we have seen ransomware attackers change the way they have responded to organizations...
McAfee Defender’s Blog: NetWalker
Building Adaptable Security Architecture Against NetWalker NetWalker Overview The NetWalker ransomware, initially known as Mailto, was first detected in August...
McAfee Defender’s Blog: Operation Dianxun
Operation Dianxun Overview In a recent report the McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) Strategic Intelligence team disclosed an espionage campaign,...
McAfee Defender’s Blog: Operation North Star Campaign
Building Adaptable Security Architecture Against the Operation North Star Campaign Operation North Star Overview Over the last few months, we...
McAfee Discovers Pinkslipbot Exploiting Infected Machines as Control Servers
This blog was written by Sanchit Karve. McAfee Labs has discovered that banking malware Pinkslipbot (also known as QakBot/QBot) has...
McAfee Employees Share How They #PressForProgress on International Women’s Day
By Karla, Digital Media Specialist During the month of March, we’re excited to support International Women’s Day (March 8) and...
McAfee Employees Strike Their #BalanceForBetter Pose This International Women’s Day
By Karla, Digital Media Specialist During the month of March, we are thrilled to support International Women’s Day, on March...
McAfee ePO Platform Gains Insight Into Threat Research
The latest update to the McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® platform offers a new add-in to provide insight into the latest analysis carried out by McAfee Labs and the Advanced Threat Research team.