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Facebook Messenger Flaw Could’ve Allowed Criminals to Intercept Messages
When it comes to day-to-day communications, we are—to put it mildly—married to our messaging applications. Which is why it’s worrying...
‘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...
Experts Discuss the 2016 Verizon DBIR: June #SecChat
Cybersecurity in 2016 has been full of sensational headlines. Ransomware has shut down multiple hospitals, millions of credentials have been...
Zcrypt Expands Reach as ‘Virus Ransomware’
McAfee has recently seen a new kind of ransomware–Zcrypt—that can self-replicate. This “virus ransomware” arrives via email in a malicious...
How Safe Is Your Personal Information Online?
How many websites have you shared information with? Do you use the same passwords across all your accounts? Is your...
What Everyone Can Learn from The Mark Zuckerberg Hack
When we were children, our role models seemed invincible. Could any five-year-old imagine a Superman who was less than perfect?...
Does Your Teen Recognize the Cruelty of Subtweeting?
“No way! Do you think this tweet is about me?” The abruptly frantic teen held her phone directly up in...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
5 Steps to Enhance Security of Cloud Applications
This blog post was written by Dileep Dasari. When you move applications to the cloud, the attack surface changes while the vulnerabilities...
Talk to Your Kids About Online Safety, Sextortion On The Rise
This blog was written by Bruce Snell. In my day-to-day activities at McAfee, I deal with a lot of security...
