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Roaming Mantis Amplifies Smishing Campaign with OS-Specific Android Malware
The Roaming Mantis smishing campaign has been impersonating a logistics company to steal SMS messages and contact lists from Asian...
“Fool’s Gold”: Questionable Vaccines, Bogus Results, and Forged Cards
Preface Countries all over the world are racing to achieve so-called herd immunity against COVID-19 by vaccinating their populations. From...
Major HTTP Vulnerability in Windows Could Lead to Wormable Exploit
Today, Microsoft released a highly critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-31166) in its web server http.sys. This product is a Windows-only HTTP server...
DarkSide Ransomware Victims Sold Short
Over the past week we have seen a considerable body of work focusing on DarkSide, the ransomware responsible for the...
Scammers Impersonating Windows Defender to Push Malicious Windows Apps
Summary points: Scammers are increasingly using Windows Push Notifications to impersonate legitimate alerts Recent campaigns pose as a Windows Defender...
Are Virtual Machines the New Gold for Cyber Criminals?
Introduction Virtualization technology has been an IT cornerstone for organization for years now. It revolutionized the way organizations can scale...
A New Program for Your Peloton – Whether You Like It or Not
Executive Summary The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team (ATR) is committed to uncovering security issues in both software and hardware to help developers...
McAfee Labs Report Highlights Ransomware Threats
The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team today published the McAfee Labs Threats Report: June 2021. In this edition we introduce...
Analyzing CVE-2021-1665 – Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Windows GDI+
Introduction Microsoft Windows Graphics Device Interface+, also known as GDI+, allows various applications to use different graphics functionality on video...
How I Seized McAfee’s Opportunities to Realize My Potential
This post was written by Emmanuel Making the most of opportunities and putting in the work with an employer who...
Fuzzing ImageMagick and Digging Deeper into CVE-2020-27829
Introduction: ImageMagick is a hugely popular open source software that is used in lot of systems around the world. It...
New Ryuk Ransomware Sample Targets Webservers
Executive Summary Ryuk is a ransomware that encrypts a victim’s files and requests payment in Bitcoin cryptocurrency to release the...
Zloader With a New Infection Technique
This blog was written by Kiran Raj & Kishan N. Introduction In the last few years, Microsoft Office macro malware...
Hancitor Making Use of Cookies to Prevent URL Scraping
This blog was written by Vallabh Chole & Oliver Devane Over the years, the cybersecurity industry has seen many threats...
REvil Ransomware Uses DLL Sideloading
This blog was written byVaradharajan Krishnasamy, Karthickkumar, Sakshi Jaiswal Introduction Ransomware attacks are one of the most common cyber-attacks among...
An Overall Philosophy on the Use of Critical Threat Intelligence
The overarching threat facing cyber organizations today is a highly skilled asymmetric enemy, well-funded and resolute in his task and...
Fighting new Ransomware Techniques with McAfee’s Latest Innovations
In 2021 ransomware attacks have been dominant among the bigger cyber security stories. Hence, I was not surprised to see...
My Journey from Intern to Principal Engineer
Written by Shuborno, Principal Engineer At McAfee, architects and engineers continuously have opportunities to make decisions that impact customers and...
