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McAfee Labs Threats Report: April 2021

In this edition, we present new findings in our traditional threat statistical categories – as well as our usual malware, sectors, and vectors – imparted in a new, enhanced digital presentation that’s more easily consumed and interpreted.

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McAfee Labs

Ramnit Malware Creates FTP Network From Victims’ Computers

This blog post was written by Vikas Taneja. The Ramnit worm appeared in 2010. Within a year more than eight...

Internet Security Privacy & Identity Protection

Is Dropbox Dropping in on Your Shared Files?

The ability to instantly share and interact through online sources has become an expected part of our daily lives. We...

McAfee Labs

Vertexnet Botnet Hides Behind AutoIt

Recently we found some new malware samples using AutoIt to hide themselves. On further analysis we found that those sample...

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Why You Need to Teach Your Kids to be Careful What They Search For Online

With information and video access at their fingertips most teens spend a crazy amount of time online looking for the...

Internet Security Mobile Security

The Search for Celebrity Gossip Could Land Your Phone in Hot Water

They may be glamorous, but celebrities can make things quite ugly when it comes to the safety of your mobile...

Family Safety

SnapChat-Like Apps Hide Content on Twitter, Facebook

Just when parents figured out SnapChat, an app that makes photo texts disappear, two new apps hit the social scene that...

Mobile Security Family Safety Privacy & Identity Protection

Mirror Mirror Online, Who Is the Most Dangerous Celebrity of Them All?

We all do it. We probably all just don’t admit it. Well I admit it—I’ve searched for that elusive picture...

McAfee Labs

Andromeda Botnet Hides Behind AutoIt

Last month, I posted a blog about an increase in the use of AutoIt scripts by malware authors to carry...

Family Safety

New Apps Make It Easy to Save SnapChats

The SnapChat smart phone app is one of the newest crazes for teens because it allows a user to send...

Internet Security Family Safety

What is Encryption?

Encryption is the science of encoding and decoding secret messages.  It began as cryptography—the ancient Greeks used it to protect...

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