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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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‘FakeInstaller’ Leads the Attack on Android Phones

Android.FakeInstaller is a widespread mobile malware family. It has spoofed the Olympic Games Results App, Skype, Flash Player, Opera and...

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‘Insight’ into Home Automation Reveals Vulnerability in Simple IoT Product

Eoin Carroll, Charles McFarland, Kevin McGrath, and Mark Bereza contributed to this report.  The Internet of Things promises to make...

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‘McAfee Labs Threats Report’ Delves Into Dangers of Data Loss

This blog post was written by Rick Simon. Data is leaking out of your organization: accidentally or intentionally, by internals...

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‘Operation Oceansalt’ Delivers Wave After Wave

In the latest findings from the McAfee Advanced Threat Research team, we examine an adversary that was not content with a single campaign, but launched five distinct waves adapted to their separate targets.

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‘Police Ransomware’ Preys on Guilty Consciences

“Police ransomware” is big business, generating millions of euros for organized criminal groups. In May, at Europol’s headquarters in The...

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‘Popcorn Time’ Ransomware Sure to Cause Indigestion

In early December the new ransomware “Popcorn Time” was discovered. It gives the victim the option of paying the ransom...

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‘Secret Chat’ Messages Aren’t So Secret After All

The universal truth about secrets? They almost always tend to get leaked. This was the case for a cross-platform messaging...

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‘SSL Death Alert’ (CVE-2016-8610) Can Cause Denial of Service to OpenSSL Servers

Recently we noticed a security patch has been published for the OpenSSL vulnerability called SSL Death Alert. As with other...

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‘Thrones’ Jon Snow Appears to Employ Neutrino Exploit Kit

This blog post was written by Kalpesh Mantri. You read that right. Jon Snow appears to be back from the...

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