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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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Cybercriminals Test Malware Through a Comment on Britney Spears’ Instagram Page

Oops, Trojan malware did it again. This time, it’s targeting popstar Britney Spears’ social media, specifically, her Instagram page. However,...

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Cybercriminals Learn to Love Extensions like Toolbars in Targeted Attacks

In the late 90s and early 2000s, most web browsers came with small, add-on programs to enhance browsing. Most of...

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Cybercriminals Disguised as Apple Are After Users’ Personal Data

With the holidays rapidly approaching, many consumers are receiving order confirmation emails updating them on their online purchases for friends...

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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...

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Cybercriminals Claim They Have ‘Millions’ of iCloud Credentials, but Likelihood Is Low.

A lot of people love to play poker for the thrill and entertainment of sheer luck. For some, however, it’s...

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Cybercriminals Breach Yahoo, Impacting 500 Million Users

When it comes to data breaches there are hits and there are misses. And then there are hits. Today, there...

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Cybercriminals Actively Exploiting RDP to Target Remote Organizations

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted many companies to enable their employees to work remotely and, in a large number of...

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Cybercriminal Speaks With Child via Hacked Smart Camera: How You Can Stay Protected

IoT devices enter our homes out of ease and convenience, as the gadgets often optimize or streamline ordinary tasks —...

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Cybercrime’s Most Wanted: Four Mobile Threats that Might Surprise You

It’s hard to imagine a world without cellphones. Whether it be a smartphone or a flip phone, these devices have...

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Cybercrime in the Spotlight: How Crooks Capitalize on Cultural Events

Every four years, everyone’s head around the globe turns toward the television. The Olympics, the World Cup – world events like...

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Cybercrime ‘Highlights’ of First Quarter 2014

As a supplement to the next McAfee Labs Threats Report, which will appear next month, we offer this timeline of...

Family Safety

Cybercasing – How Sharing Your Pics, Videos and Status Updates Can Get You Into Trouble

It can be fun ‘checking in’ at your favourite restaurant on Facebook, sharing pics of your hotel room on Instagram...

Family Safety

Cyberbullying’s Impact on Both Society and Security

More than half of children say that a cyberbully targeted them online.  That disquieting stat comes from our recent global...

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Cyberbullying: Words do Hurt When it Comes to Social Media

Most parents may find it difficult to relate to today’s form of cyberbullying. That’s because, for many of us, bullying...

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Cyber Threat Alliance Releases Analysis of Illicit Cryptocurrency Mining

In response to the explosive increase in cryptomining campaigns in Q4 2017, the Cyber Threat Alliance has formed a cryptomining subcommittee to assess the threat.

Family Safety

Cyber Pranks – Funny or Mean??

We all know that kids love to play pranks – it is just part of childhood. Whether it is whoopee...

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Cyber Parenting – Let’s Hear What Mothers Have to Say

Children’s Day is around the corner and it has me thinking. With all the brouhaha over a connected future and...

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Cyber Monday: Protect Yourself and Your Family from Online Shopping Scams

The eagerly awaited holiday sales such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner. These tips will help you avoid falling prey to online scams, thereby ensuring that you keep your finances safe during this shopping season.

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Cyber Insurance – The Need of the Hour

Years ago, when we were complete newbies to computers, data loss was a frequent occurrence. Files were lost as they...

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Cyber Criminals Gain in Sophistication With Integrity Attacks

One constant in cybersecurity is the continual rise of sophistication and creativity of attackers. In 2016, we will see a...

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CVE-2020-17051: Remote kernel heap overflow in NFSv3 Windows Server

CVSS Score: 9.8  Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C  Overview  Microsoft released a patch today for a critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-17051) in the Windows NFSv3 (Network File System) server. NFS is typically...

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CVE-2020-16898: “Bad Neighbor”

CVE-2020-16898: “Bad Neighbor” CVSS Score: 8.8 Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C Overview Today, Microsoft announced a critical vulnerability in the Windows IPv6 stack,...

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CVE-2016-0153: Microsoft Patches Possible OLE Typo

Recently McAfee Labs discovered an interesting bug in Windows’ OLE implementation, which Microsoft patched this week. Now that the patch...

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CVE-2016-0018: DLL Planting Leads to a Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

DLL planting, also known as DLL side loading, is a popular attack technique today. If we take a look at...

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CVE-2012-0158 Exploit in the Wild

Since last week, we have seen many specially crafted files exploiting CVE-2012-0158, a vulnerability in MSCOMCTL.OCX in Microsoft Office and...

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Customer Support Scams Are Popping up in Social Media Ads: How to Stay Secure

Many of us rely on customer support websites for navigating new technology. Whether it’s installing a new piece of software or...

McAfee Labs

CurveBall – An Unimaginative Pun but a Devastating Bug

Enterprise customers looking for information on defending against Curveball can find information here. 2020 came in with a bang this...

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