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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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Family Safety Privacy & Identity Protection

Youth & Social Media

The digital world is here to stay. The youth are growing up with and making internet technologies, such as social...

Internet Security Privacy & Identity Protection

What is Pharming?

. For a lot of kids today, mash-ups are all the rage—whether it’s combining two videos, two songs, or two...

Internet Security How To Guides and Tutorials Privacy & Identity Protection

Doxxing, The Internet and How You Can Lock Down Your Data

There exists, in this world of ours, a term describing the public release of a person’s identity against their will...

How To Guides and Tutorials Privacy & Identity Protection

Should You Use Near-Field Communications?

Have you ever wondered what kind of superpower you’d have? I’ve always wanted to send messages and ideas with my...

Mobile Security

WhatsApp with End-to-End Encryption?

Throughout the past year, many mobile messaging apps have come under fire for inherent security vulnerabilities. This month, WhatsApp (one...

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InstallCube: How Russian Programmers Turn Adware Into Cash

We often observe applications bundled with ad-displaying programs to generate revenue for those products. These are not necessarily unethical, but...

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McAfee Adds Flash Exploit Detection to NSP 8.2

Adobe Flash vulnerabilities and exploits have worried users and security professionals for many years. The situation today remains serious. A...

Internet Security Mobile Security

What is Ransomware?

Imagine that you want to pull up a certain file on your computer. You click on the file and suddenly...

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Slow File Infector Spies on Victims

Sourabh Kadam contributed to this blog. In the middle of 2012 McAfee Labs observed the complex malware XDocCrypt infecting documents,...

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