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McAfee Labs is the threat research division of McAfee and one of the world’s leading sources for threat research, threat intelligence, and cybersecurity thought leadership. McAfee Labs threat researchers correlate real-world data collected from millions of sensors across key threat vectors—file, web, message, and network—and deliver threat intelligence in real-time to increase protection and reduce risk.
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The Advanced Threat Research Lab provides our researchers access to state-of-the-art hardware and equipment targeting the discovery, exploitation, and responsible disclosure of critical vulnerabilities. The lab also showcases demos of research projects, such as attacks against medical devices, cars, and more.
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Threats reports
April 2021 Report
Our McAfee Labs teams reveals COVID-19-related campaigns and malware threats from Q3 and Q4 of 2020, plus new analysis of detections in the wild including top MITRE ATT&CK and Criminal/APT groups.
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In this report, McAfee® Labs takes a closer look into the threats that surfaced in the second quarter of 2020. After a first quarter that led the world into a pandemic, the second quarter of 2020 saw enterprises continue to adapt to unprecedented levels of employees working from home and the cybersecurity challenges the new normal demands.
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In this special edition, we examine cyber threats in the first quarter of 2020 and the evolution of threats related to COVID-19. The report also introduces the cybersecurity community to the new McAfee COVID-19 Threat Dashboard.
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