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Additional Analysis into the SUNBURST Backdoor
Executive Summary There has been considerable focus on the recent disclosures associated with SolarWinds, and while existing analysis on the...
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...
Access Token Theft and Manipulation Attacks – A Door to Local Privilege Escalation
Executive Summary Many malware attacks designed to inflict damage on a network are armed with lateral movement capabilities. Post initial...
A Year in Review: Threat Landscape for 2020
As we gratefully move forward into the year 2021, we have to recognise that 2020 was as tumultuous in the...
A Quick Analysis of the Flash Player Opcode-Verifying Code Execution Vulnerability
On October 12, McAfee Labs learned of proof-of-concept code exploiting a newly patched Flash Player vulnerability. Adobe had patched this...
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...
A New Android Banking Trojan Masquerades as Utility and Banking Apps in India
Authored by Dexter Shin Over the years, cyber threats targeting Android devices have become more sophisticated and persistent. Recently, McAfee...
A Glance Into the Neutrino Botnet
Lately, we have seen a number of communications through our automated framework from the Neutrino botnet. While analyzing this botnet,...
A Future Beyond Mobile Devices; Trusting the Promises of Mobile World Congress
More than 100,000 people descended upon Mobile World Congress (MWC) last week to watch experts from around the world discuss...
A Field Trip to McAfee’s World of Cyber
By: Amanda Steger, Senior Director & Sandra Chin, Engineering Operations Manager Educating the next generation of cybersecurity heroes has always...
A Dummies Guide to ‘Insider Trading’ via Botnet, Part 2
This post, the second of two parts, was written by Christiaan Beek, Raj Samani, and Shane Shook. In our first post,...
A Dummies Guide to ‘Insider Trading’ via Botnet
This post, the first of two parts, was written by Raj Samani, Christiaan Beek, and Shane Shook. Want to spread...
A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Role of BlackEnergy in Ukrainian Power Grid Disruption
Recent reports of electricity outages across the Ukraine has led to significant speculation regarding the specific malware that was used...
A ‘Second Economy’ Prognosis for Health Care Cybersecurity
McAfee CTO Steve Grobman has pointed out that gaining the upper hand in cybersecurity requires that we extend our thinking...
80 to 0 in Under 5 Seconds: Falsifying a Medical Patient’s Vitals
With the explosion of growth in technology and its influence on our lives, we have become increasingly dependent on it. The medical field is no exception: Medical professionals trust technology to provide them with accurate information and base life-changing decisions on this data.
5G Networks Pose Cyber Risks, Opportunities
Fifth-generation networking (5G) holds the potential for a massive immersion of technology into the lives of people and businesses. It...
5, 4, 3, 2, 1: Osama Bin Laden Death Scams
I suppose this was inevitable. The reported death of Osama Bin Laden is just too good a lure for cybercriminals...
5 Steps to Enhance Security of Cloud Applications
This blog post was written by Dileep Dasari. When you move applications to the cloud, the attack surface changes while the vulnerabilities...
