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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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McAfee Labs

New Exploit of Sandworm Zero-Day Could Bypass Official Patch

Update of October 25: Some comments posted after we published this report suggest that our proof-of-concept exploit will trigger the...

Family Safety

New Family Dynamics As the Connected Lifestyle Grows

“You know that we are living in a digital world and I am a digital girl.” I often find myself humming...

Mobile Security

New Free Version of McAfee Mobile Security

At CES, last month in Las Vegas, McAfee announced plans to offer elements of McAfee® Mobile Security for free. Since...

McAfee Labs

New HiddenAds malware affects 1M+ users and hides on the Google Play Store

Authored by Dexter Shin McAfee’s Mobile Research Team has identified new malware on the Google Play Store. Most of them...

Internet Security McAfee News

New Insights From McAfee’s Survey Around Remote Work

The last few months have brought about a lot of change for all of us. Due to social distancing, companies...

McAfee Labs

New Labs Report: ‘Analyzing Project Blitzkrieg’

Project Blitzkrieg, a current attack on US financial institutions, got a lot of media attention following a blog posting by...

McAfee Labs

New Malicious Clicker found in apps installed by 20M+ users

Authored by SangRyol Ryu Cybercriminals are always after illegal advertising revenue. As we have previously reported, we have seen many...

Internet Security Privacy & Identity Protection

New McAfee Report Reveals Identity Theft is the Most Expensive Form of Property Crime

Between Uber, Equifax, and a handful of others, the U.S. has witnessed major data breaches in the past year that...

McAfee Labs

New Ryuk Ransomware Sample Targets Webservers

Executive Summary Ryuk is a ransomware that encrypts a victim’s files and requests payment in Bitcoin cryptocurrency to release the...

McAfee Labs

New Security Reality for Internet of Things

  Recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are forcing a shift in how we think about the Internet of...

Internet Security

New tech for the holidays? Watch out for these tech support scams.

We all know the frustration. A new piece of tech isn’t working the way it should. Or maybe setting it up is...

McAfee Labs

New TeslaCrypt Ransomware Arrives via Spam

During the last couple of weeks, McAfee Labs has observed a huge increase in spam related to Nemucod, a malicious...

Internet Security Privacy & Identity Protection

New VPNFilter Malware Contains Kill Switch, Infects Over 500,000 Devices

Routers are the driving force behind a lot of our modern-day internet use. They power our Wi-Fi, and therefore our...

Internet Security Privacy & Identity Protection

New Vulnerabilities in Smart TVs Could Allow Hackers to Spy on Users

As recent events like CES and MWC have proved, the popularity of connected devices is showing no signs of slowing....

McAfee Labs

New Wave of SHTML Phishing Attacks

Authored By Anuradha McAfee Labs has recently observed a new wave of phishing attacks. In this wave, the attacker has...

McAfee News

New Year, New Digital You: Canadian Survey Findings from McAfee

New Year, New Digital You: Canadian Survey Findings from McAfee McAfee is headquartered in the U.S. and with our impressive...

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New Year, New Digital You: Consumer Security Findings from McAfee’s Latest Report

New Year, New Digital You: Consumer Security Findings from McAfee’s Latest Report  2020 was a year unlike any other. We transitioned from...

McAfee News

New Year, New Partner Learning Center

This blog post was written by Allison Clarke. In 2015 we are “Thinking Big” and nothing demonstrates this more than...

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