Tales From the Trenches; a Lockbit Ransomware Story
Co-authored by Marc RiveroLopez. In collaboration with Northwave As we highlighted previously across two blogs, targeted ransomware attacks have increased...
COVID-19 Threat Update – now includes Blood for Sale
Although the use of global events as a vehicle to drive digital crime is hardly surprising, the current outbreak of...
McAfee Labs 2020 Threats Predictions Report
With 2019’s headlines of ransomware, malware, and RDP attacks almost behind us, we shift our focus to the cybercrime threats...
Syn/Ack Unique Proactive Protection Technique
McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research team has performed analysis on samples of Syn/Ack ransomware implementing Process Doppelgänging. For those who are...
Necurs Botnet Leads the World in Sending Spam Traffic
In Q4 2017 we found that the Necurs and Gamut botnets comprised 97% of spam botnet traffic. (See the McAfee...
McAfee Researchers Find Poor Security Exposes Medical Data to Cybercriminals
Those who have successfully gained access to medical data have been well rewarded for their efforts. One seller stated in an interview that “someone wanted to buy all the … records specifically,” claiming that the effort had netted US$100,000.
McAfee Researchers Analyze Dark Side of Cryptocurrency Craze
In December 2017 Bitcoin values skyrocketed, peaking at the unprecedented amount of roughly US$19,000 per coin. Unsurprisingly, the market for...
