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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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Criminals are Getting Excited for Tax Filing Season

  Cybercriminals are plotting to take advantage of tax season, by fraudulently impersonating consumers and scamming Americans. For the citizens...

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Cristiano Ronaldo tops McAfee India’s Most Dangerous Celebrity 2020 List

Cristiano Ronaldo tops McAfee India’s Most Dangerous Celebrity 2020 List During COVID-19, people stuck inside have scoured the internet for...

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Critical Office Zero-Day Attacks Detected in the Wild

At McAfee, we have put significant efforts in hunting attacks such as advanced persistent threats and “zero days.” Yesterday, we...

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CRN Names SIX McAfee Women to its 2016 Women of the Channel List

This blog was written by Richard Steranka. Last week, CRN named SIX women from McAfee to its prestigious 2016 Women of...

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CRN’s Women of the Channel 2021 Recognizes McAfee Leaders

Every year CRN recognizes the women who are leading the channel and their unique strengths, vision, and achievements. This year, CRN recognized five McAfee...

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CrowdStrike Outage Provides Opportunities for Scammers 

Recently, a significant global outage resulted in thousands of Windows computers being brought offline. The source of the outage was...

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Cruel Ghouls: New Digital Scams Target Every Age Group

Cruel Ghouls: New Digital Scams Target Every Age Group There are few situations more personal than a distressed family member...

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Crypto Scam: SpaceX Tokens for Sale

Authored by: Neil Tyagi   Scam artists know no bounds—and that also applies to stealing your cryptocurrency. Crypto scams are like...

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Crypto Scammers Exploit: Elon Musk Speaks on Cryptocurrency

By Oliver Devane  Update: In the past 24 hours (from time of publication)  McAfee has identified 15 more scam sites...

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Cryptocurrencies a Target for Cybercriminals, Part 1: the Risks of Innovation

All cryptocurrencies are a target for cybercriminals. Anywhere there is value, criminals, fraudsters, and charlatans will soon follow. Call it...

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Cryptocurrencies a Target for Cybercriminals, Part 2: Social Platforms Come Next

One target of cybercriminals is cryptocurrencies, which hold tremendous wealth but are largely anonymous. This limits the attack surface mostly...

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Cryptocurrency Laundering Service, BestMixer.io, Taken Down by Law Enforcement

A much overlooked but essential part in financially motivated (cyber)crime is making sure that the origins of criminal funds are...

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Cryptohacking: Is Cryptocurrency Losing Its Credibility?

In the fall of 2021, cryptocurrency value skyrocketed. Ethereum and Bitcoin had their highest values ever, causing a huge stir...

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Cryptojacking Campaign Caught Targeting Over 200,000 MikroTik Routers

Our routers are our connection to the internet, allowing us to use our devices to access websites at our leisure....

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Cryptojacking Up 4,000% How You Can Block the Bad Guys

Think about it: In the course of your everyday activities — like grocery shopping or riding public transportation — the...

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Cryptojacking – Stop Hackers from Making Money Off You

Your pain is their gain. That’s how things go in a cryptojacking attack. Cryptomining is the utilization of computers to...

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CryptoWall Ransomware Built With RC4 Bricks

Last month many Internet users were suddenly forced to trade in Bitcoins. This was not for general purposes–they were paying...

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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...

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