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Scammers Follow the Rebranding of Twitter to X, to Distribute Malware
Authored by: Vallabh Chole and Yerko Grbic On July 23rd, 2023, Elon Musk announced that the social networking site, Twitter...
Scammers are Exploiting Ukraine Donations
Authored by Vallabh Chole and Oliver Devane Scammers are very quick at reacting to current events, so they can generate...
Satanbot Employs VBScript to Create Botnet
Malware is on the rise. At the beginning of 2008, our malware collection had 10 million samples. Today we have...
Ryuk, Exploring the Human Connection
In collaboration with Bill Siegel and Alex Holdtman from Coveware. At the beginning of 2019, McAfee ATR published an...
Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point
Senior analyst Ryan Sherstobitoff contributed to this report. During the past week, an outbreak of Ryuk ransomware that impeded newspaper...
RTF Zero-Day Attack CVE-2014-1761 Shows Sophistication of Attackers
A serious RTF zero-day attack has struck recently. McAfee detection solutions were provided a couple of days ago that allowed...
RTF Attack Takes Advantage of Multiple Exploits
This is a joint analysis by Haifei Li, Stanley Zhu, and Jun Xie of McAfee Labs Recently, the rich text...
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...
Rooting Exploit for Android Works Silently
In our last blog about Android malware, we discussed the expanding threat landscape for Android malware. Recently, we received an...
ROCA: Which Key-Pair Attacks Are Credible?
This blog was co-written by Brook Schoenfield. In the past two weeks, we have seen two big encryption issues arise:...
Robot Character Analysis Reveals Trust Issues
Retired Marine fighter pilot and Top Gun instructor Dave Berke said “Every single thing you do in your life, every...
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...
Rising Scams in India: Building Awareness and Prevention
Authored by Anuradha, Sakshi Jaiswal In 2024, scams in India have continued to evolve, leveraging sophisticated methods and technology to...
Rise of LNK (Shortcut files) Malware
An LNK file is a Windows Shortcut that serves as a pointer to open a file, folder, or application. LNK files are based on the Shell Link binary file format, which holds information used to access another data object. McAfee Labs has seen a rise in malware being delivered using ...
Rise in Deceptive PDF: The Gateway to Malicious Payloads
Authored by Yashvi Shah and Preksha Saxena McAfee Labs has recently observed a significant surge in the distribution of prominent...
Ripple20 Vulnerability Mitigation Best Practices
On June 16th, the Department of Homeland Security and CISA ICS-CERT issued a critical security advisory warning covering multiple newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting...
Ripple20 Critical Vulnerabilities – Detection Logic and Signatures
This document has been prepared by McAfee Advanced Threat Research in collaboration with JSOF who discovered and responsibly disclosed the...
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...
Return to Workplace: Ready to Relaunch Your Career
By: Sheetal, Application Developer & Majy, IT Support McAfee offers a new program that offers professionals who dedicated extended time...
Responses to Cybercrime in Japan and France
This week the Sorbonne University and the French Department of Justice hosted a meeting, the World and Development Institute (IMODEV) International...
Researchers Follow the Breadcrumbs: The Latest Vulnerabilities in Windows’ Network Stack
The concept of a trail of breadcrumbs in the offensive security community is nothing new; for many years, researchers on...
Report Highlights Enterprise Biometric Vulnerabilities, Opportunities
Authentication in the modern enterprise is becoming more difficult. The risks are rising, but adding more security controls can impede...
Remote Jackpot: Hacking ATMs
Isn’t it just everybody’s dream: to walk up to an ATM, swipe your card, get a flashy screen reading “We...
Remote iPhone Jailbreak Using PDF Exploit Should Serve as Wake-Up Call
Like many iPhone users, I “jailbreak” my iPhone. I do this for many reasons, but mainly for console-level access and...
Redline Stealer: A Novel Approach
Authored by Mohansundaram M and Neil Tyagi A new packed variant of the Redline Stealer trojan was observed in the...
Red Kit an Emerging Exploit Pack
Exploit kits are toolkits that are used to build malware components such as binaries and scripts. They automate the exploitation...
RDP Stands for “Really DO Patch!” – Understanding the Wormable RDP Vulnerability
During Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday cycle, a security advisory was released for a vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)....
