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McAfee Labs Threats Report Highlights Ransomware, Flash Exploits, Firmware Attacks Surge
This blog post was written by Rick Simon. McAfee today released the McAfee Labs Threats Report: May 2015. Along with...
‘Evoltin’ POS Malware Attacks via Macro
Over the past couple of months McAfee Labs has seen an increase in the usage of macros to deliver malware....
Threat Actors Use Encrypted Office Binary Format to Evade Detection
This blog post was written in conjunction with Xiaoning Li. Microsoft Office documents play an important role in our work...
Ease of Buying Ransomware Fuels Affiliate Program
For several weeks after we released the McAfee Labs Threats Report, May 2015, in which we discussed the topic of...
AshleyMadison Hack Demonstrates Power of Scam Artists
This blog post was written by Armando Rodriguez. Last month, cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs broke the news that adult site...
Best practices for preventing Dridex infections
Mitigating the Dridex threat at multiple levels like file, registry, url and ip address can be achieved at various layers of...
Japanese Banking Trojan Shifu Combines Malware Tools
In recent weeks, McAfee Labs has analyzed a recently discovered banking Trojan that combines elements from multiple malware tools. Shifu...
We’ve Been Hacked! Okay, I’ll Deal With It Next Week
That was the message I got from a CEO when we presented evidence that their organization had been compromised and...
Hidden Data Economy Report Exposes Price Points for Stolen Data
McAfee today released The Hidden Data Economy report, which provides examples of how different types of stolen data is being...
Ransomware: an Insight to Financial Gain
This week, joint research on the CryptoWall Version 3 family was released by the Cyber Threat Alliance. In Lucrative Ransomware...
CryptoWall V3 and V4 Protection for McAfee Customers
Updated, November 6: Since October 30, the release date of the Cyber Threat Alliance report on CryptoWall Version 3, we...
Beware the Rapid Proliferation of Cyber-warfare Capabilities
Governments across the globe continue to invest in cyber warfare operations. Over 60 countries, a number that is rising, currently...
2016 Cybersecurity Predictions Report Examines Growth in Integrity Attacks
Cybersecurity changes rapidly. Those with valuable insights can better prepare for the shifting risks and opportunities. McAfee has just released the McAfee...
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 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,...
The Hidden Costs of Cyber Attacks
The real costs of cyber attacks are difficult to understand. The impacts of cybersecurity are terribly challenging to measure, which...
Overcoming Targeted Attacks: a New Approach
Successful targeted attacks bypass security controls and typically cause significant damage to an enterprise. Damages may include reputation, monetary, and...
Rovnix Downloader Updated with SinkHole and Time Checks
McAfee Labs has found that the latest Rovnix downloader now comes with the capability to check for the sinkholing of...
Blockchain Transactions Create Risks for Financial Services
This post was written by Raj Samani and Christiaan Beek of McAfee , and Shane D. Shook, PhD. Trust is...
SMS Phishing Campaign Spreads in China
Phishing messages and fake websites for stealing users’ credentials are a common occurrence. Recently, however, mobile banking users in China...
New TeslaCrypt Ransomware Arrives via Spam
During the last couple of weeks, McAfee Labs has observed a huge increase in spam related to Nemucod, a malicious...
Typosquatting Attacks Alive and Well–Unfortunately
Typosquatting doesn’t get the attention that it used to, but it remains an effective means for attackers to capitalize on unsuspecting...
Updated BlackEnergy Trojan Grows More Powerful
In late December, a cyberattack caused a power outage in the Ukraine, plunging hundreds of thousands of citizens into darkness...
Attackers Seek to Hack Hardware for Ultimate Control
We are seeing interesting changes in how researchers and attackers are exploring methods to undermine systems and devices. Increasingly, the...
Automotive Security Moves Into Cyber Realm
The focus on the security of automobiles and the transportation sector as a whole (planes, trains, etc.) is steadily increasing....
Security on Silicon the Next Big Step in Cyber Protection
With the growth of the Internet of Things, going from 15 billion to 200 billion devices by 2020, and the...
Cyber Criminals Gain in Sophistication With Integrity Attacks
One constant in cybersecurity is the continual rise of sophistication and creativity of attackers. In 2016, we will see a...
