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SUNBURST Malware and SolarWinds Supply Chain Compromise
Part I of II Situation In a blog post released 13 Dec 2020, FireEye disclosed that threat actors compromised SolarWinds’s...
Styx Exploit Kit Takes Advantage of Vulnerabilities
Web-based malware has increased over the last few years due to an abrupt spike in new exploit kits. These kits...
Stuxnet Update
Stuxnet has received a lot of attention since McAfee first blogged about it in July. This post will answer some of...
Stopping Malware With a Fake Virtual Machine
As we explained in a previous post, some advanced malware can detect a virtual environment such as a sandbox to...
Stolen with a Click: The Booming Business of PayPal Scams
In today’s digital age, online payment platforms like PayPal have become essential tools for our everyday transactions. Unfortunately, they’ve also...
Stolen Credit Card Numbers Easy to Buy Online
We have seen an increasing amount of articles published about the “Dark Web,” underground cybercriminal sites that are hosted on...
Stefan’s Tale: A 17-Year Journey to McAfee
By Stefan, Senior Security Consultant in Sydney, Australia. When I was younger, I wanted to be a policeman and help...
Steamstealer Attacks Victims via Chat
During the last few months, McAfee Labs has seen an increase in Steamstealer samples. The following chart shows the recent...
Stealth Backdoor “Android/Xamalicious” Actively Infecting Devices
Authored by Fernando Ruiz McAfee Mobile Research Team identified an Android backdoor implemented with Xamarin, an open-source framework that allows...
Staying Anonymous on the Blockchain: Concerns and Techniques
With Bitcoin at one point valued at more than $5,000 per unit, cryptocurrencies have excited a lot of interest from...
Spyware distributed through Amazon Appstore
Authored by Wenfeng Yu and ZePeng Chen As smartphones have become an integral part of our daily lives, malicious apps...
SpyLoan: A Global Threat Exploiting Social Engineering
Authored by: Fernando Ruiz The McAfee mobile research team recently identified a significant global increase of SpyLoan, also known as...
Spreading the Flame: Skywiper Employs ‘Windows Update’
Microsoft has issued Security Advisory 2718704, in which the company disclosed that it recently became aware of the Flamer/Skywiper threat,...
Spotlighting McAfee’s Women in Technology Scholarship Recipients
Working at McAfee is so much more than fighting off cyber-attacks; it’s also about learning valuable life lessons and fostering...
Spotlight on Shamoon
Our analysis this month has pointed to Shamoon emerging in the Middle East. We have recently seen a number of...
Spora Ransomware Infects ‘Offline’—Without Talking to Control Server
Spora is a ransomware family that encrypts victims’ files and demands money to decrypt the files. It has infected many...
Spitmo vs Zitmo: Banking Trojans Target Android
SpyEye and Zeus are probably the most prevalent and active Trojan “banker” families seen in the wild. (Bankers steal bank...
Spanish MSSP Targeted by BitPaymer Ransomware
Co-authored by Marc RiveroLopez Initial Discovery This week the news hit that several companies in Spain were hit by a...
