Banload Trojan Targets Brazilians With Malware Downloads
McAfee Labs has recently encountered new variants of the Banload Trojan. Banload has been around since the last decade. This...
Taking Steps to Fight Back Against Ransomware
Ransomware is an attack in which malware encrypts files and extorts money from victims. It has become a favorite among...
McAfee Teams With Industry, Law Enforcement to Thwart ‘Shade’ Ransomware
McAfee, Europol, Kaspersky Lab, and Dutch police have taken down the Shade ransomware botnet and captured encryption keys to unlock...
Webcam Blackmail: How Cybercriminals Breathe Life into Laptops
Stories of inanimate objects coming to life are familiar to us. Movies such as Toy Story show the idea’s cultural...
Business Email Compromise Hurts Your Organization
As many workers do today, you probably get emails from your boss asking you to perform various tasks. You may...
EMEA Channel Partner Summit: The highlights
This blog was written by David Small. As we look ahead to our annual FOCUS Security conference, a three day...
Macro Malware Adds Tricks, Uses MaxMind to Avoid Detection
Macro malware continues to evolve and use new tricks to evade detection. This threat is responsible for downloading malicious Trojans...
JavaScript-PHP Joint Exercise Delivers Nemucod Ransomware
The ransomware Nemucod has been very prevalent in the last few months. Nemucod’s habit of frequently changing its delivery mechanism...
Microsoft’s June Patch Kills Potential CFG Bypass
After applying Microsoft’s June patch, we noticed some interesting changes that prevent a security bypass of Windows’ Control Flow Guard...
‘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...