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Creating a Custom Domain Name with a Google App Engine Application
Google’s App Engine is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) for developers that provides features and frameworks to quickly and...
Active iOS Smishing Campaign Stealing Apple Credentials
McAfee Mobile Research recently found an active phishing campaign targeting iOS users via SMS messages. The message tells users that their Apple...
Taking Steps to Fight Back Against Ransomware
Ransomware is an attack in which malware encrypts files and extorts money from victims. It has become a favorite among...
Trojanized Propaganda App Uses Twitter to Infect, Spy on Sympathizers
The Mobile Malware Research Team of McAfee has discovered in recent weeks a number of new threats in the Middle...
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...
Phishing Attacks Employ Old but Effective Password Stealer
A few months ago we received a sample from a customer that turned out to be a password stealer (PWS). One...
Patch Now: Simple Office ‘Protected View’ Bypass Could Have Big Impact
Protected View is a security feature of Microsoft Office. According to research from MWR Labs, Protected View mode is a strong...
Trojanized Pokémon GO Android App Found in the Wild
Pokémon GO is a new mobile game that allows fans to “catch” Pokemons in the real world using augmented reality...
Business Email Compromise Hurts Your Organization
As many workers do today, you probably get emails from your boss asking you to perform various tasks. You may...
June #SecChat Recap: Findings from the 2016 Verizon DBIR
This year’s highly anticipated Verizon 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report (Verizon DBIR) analyzed cybersecurity findings from 100,000 incidents and 2,260...
Macro Malware Adds Tricks, Uses MaxMind to Avoid Detection
Macro malware continues to evolve and use new tricks to evade detection. This threat is responsible for downloading malicious Trojans...
JavaScript-PHP Joint Exercise Delivers Nemucod Ransomware
The ransomware Nemucod has been very prevalent in the last few months. Nemucod’s habit of frequently changing its delivery mechanism...
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...
‘Thrones’ Jon Snow Appears to Employ Neutrino Exploit Kit
This blog post was written by Kalpesh Mantri. You read that right. Jon Snow appears to be back from the...
Experts Discuss the 2016 Verizon DBIR: June #SecChat
Cybersecurity in 2016 has been full of sensational headlines. Ransomware has shut down multiple hospitals, millions of credentials have been...
Zcrypt Expands Reach as ‘Virus Ransomware’
McAfee has recently seen a new kind of ransomware–Zcrypt—that can self-replicate. This “virus ransomware” arrives via email in a malicious...
Threat Actors Employ COM Technology in Shellcode to Evade Detection
COM (Component Object Model) is a technology in Microsoft Windows that enables software components to communicate with each other; it...
Locky Ransomware Hides Under Multiple Obfuscated Layers of JavaScript
This post was prepared with the invaluable assistance of Rahamathulla Hussain and Girish Kulkarni. During the last couple of weeks,...
