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Old Breach Revisited: Cybercriminal Sells 117 Million LinkedIn Credentials
This week, a cybercriminal group going by the moniker “Peace” made headlines across the Internet. Peace didn’t do anything special....
Attacks on SWIFT Banking System Benefit From Insider Knowledge
In recent months, we’ve seen headlines about the compromise of a bank in Bangladesh from which cybercriminals attempted to steal...
Malware Mystery: JS/Nemucod Downloads Legitimate Installer
JS/Nemucod is the detection name given to a family of malicious JavaScript downloaders that have appeared in spam campaigns since last year....
Why You Should Think Before Geotagging that Selfie
Do you remember the first time you posted on social media? Maybe it was a blog on LiveJournal or an...
5 Summer Tech Monitoring Tips for Busy Parents
Did you feel the seismic shift this week as most families went from a school to a summer schedule? The...
Which Cybersecurity Data Should You Trust?
Limitations of security data We are constantly battered by cybersecurity data, reports, and marketing collateral—and we shouldn’t treat all of this...
What We Can Take Away from the Milwaukee Bucks Data Breach
Large sports leagues are no strangers to the spotlight, and basketball is no different. The latest scandal? Last week, a...
Android Banking Trojan ‘SpyLocker’ Targets More Banks in Europe
Since the discovery of the Android banking Trojan SpyLocker, McAfee has closely monitored this threat. SpyLocker first appeared disguised as...
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...
Seeing Through Darkleech Obfuscation: a Quick Hack to Iframes
This blog post was written by Kalpesh Mantri. Darkleech is an Apache module on the dark web that distributes malware....
Don’t Let Hackers Sink Your Family Vacation Plans
Planning a family vacation has evolved to an art form. There’s an app for everything from booking flights, discovering deals,...
Android Spyware Targets Security Job Seekers in Saudi Arabia
The Middle East is the new Wild West of mobile malware, especially for targeted attacks and intelligence gathering campaigns. During...
Meet KeySweeper, the Stealthy Hardware Recording Your Keystrokes
If there’s one reason why classic James Bond films are so widely enjoyed, it’s because of the unbeatable gadgets. From...
How ransomware attacks will soar with the growth of IoT
This blog post was written by Nick Viney. Last month I wrote about the rise of ransomware, a particularly nasty...
Trillium Exploit Kit Update Offers ‘Security Tips’
McAfee Labs has previously blogged about the Trillium Exploit Kit Version 3.0, which is commonly used to create and distribute malware....
Cybercriminals Crack into 360 Million Old Myspace Accounts
It’s easy to create online accounts, and it’s just as easy to forget them. Remember Myspace? The early social media...
Locky Ransomware Hides Under Multiple Obfuscated Layers of JavaScript
This post was prepared with the invaluable assistance of Rahamathulla Hussain and Girish Kulkarni. During the last couple of weeks,...
Threat Actors Employ COM Technology in Shellcode to Evade Detection
COM (Component Object Model) is a technology in Microsoft Windows that enables software components to communicate with each other; it...
