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Malware Trend Continues Relentless Climb
Malware development continues to remain healthy. Intel Security Group’s McAfee Labs Threat Report: August 2015 shows malware’s quarterly growth at 12% for the second quarter of 2015. The overall count...
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Ransomware a Favorite of Cybercriminals
Cybercriminals have fully embraced ransomware. This specific form of malware encrypts files and extorts money from victims, and is a favorite among criminals. Ransomware is easy to develop, simple to...
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Asking the right questions in IT Security?
Trying to learn more about cyber security, I have been reading articles online and I keep running into a constant theme: How to keep business’ most valuable asset/your information safe. Many of these...
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Signed Malware Continues to Undermine Trust
The practice of using maliciously signed binaries continues to grow. Digitally signing malware with legitimate credentials is an easy way to make victims believe that what they are downloading, seeing,...
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Why Ransomware Will Continue to Rise in 2015
Be afraid. Seriously. Ransomware is growing up fast, causing painful disruptions across the Internet, and it will get much worse in 2015. Ransomware is the criminal activity of taking hostage a...
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Security Sandboxes Challenged by Evolving Malware
Malware is working hard to undermine and punish those who employ security sandboxes. Meanwhile, security innovators are working hard to stay one step ahead. Security sandboxes are a crucial tool in the...
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Japanese Banking Trojan Shifu Combines Malware Tools
This post was prepared with the invaluable assistance of Rakesh Sharma. In recent weeks, McAfee Labs has analyzed a recently discovered banking Trojan that combines elements from multiple malware...
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McAfee Labs Team Wins Péter Ször Award
On October 2 at Virus Bulletin’s VB2015 conference in Prague, Virus Bulletin Editor Martijn Grooten announced that Anand Bodke, Abhishek Karnik, Sanchit Karve, and Raj Samani from McAfee Labs have won...
View ArticleWe’ve Been Hacked! Okay, I’ll Deal With It Next Week
That was the message I got from a CEO when we presented evidence that their organization had been compromised and the attackers had been free to roam for months, resulting in the theft of terabytes...
View ArticleHidden Data Economy Report Exposes Price Points for Stolen Data
Intel® Security today released The Hidden Data Economy report, which provides examples of how different types of stolen data is being packaged and offering prices for each type of data. Intel Security...
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Update to Gate.Worm File Infector Hijacks Files
Parasitic malware has been always a headache. Valid files on the host computer are transformed using different techniques into malware by adding malicious code to them. Most of the time, the users...
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Ransomware: an Insight to Financial Gain
This week, joint research on the CryptoWall Version 3 family was released by the Cyber Threat Alliance. In Lucrative Ransomware Attacks: Analysis of the CryptoWall Version 3 Threat, Intel Security...
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CryptoWall V3 and V4 Protection for Intel Security Customers
Updated, November 6: Since October 30, the release date of the Cyber Threat Alliance report on CryptoWall Version 3, we have spotted a new variant of the CryptoWall family. This variant has been...
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Beware the Rapid Proliferation of Cyber-warfare Capabilities
Governments across the globe continue to invest in cyber warfare operations. Over 60 countries, a number that is rising, currently have some mechanism to play in the digital warfare and...
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‘McAfee Labs 2016 Threats Predictions’ Report Forecasts Changes
In the McAfee Labs 2016 Threats Predictions report, published today, we developed two distinct views of the future. For the first section of the report, we interviewed 21 key people within Intel...
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2016 Cybersecurity Predictions Report Examines Growth in Integrity Attacks
Cybersecurity changes rapidly. Those with valuable insights can better prepare for the shifting risks and opportunities. Intel Security has just released the McAfee Labs 2016 Threats Predictions, a...
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Cybersecurity Industry Must Learn to Collaborate as Effectively as Its...
Cyber threats have evolved over time to communicate, cooperate, and in some cases directly collaborate among themselves, giving them a distinct advantage over their security counterparts. Hackers...
View ArticleA Dummies Guide to ‘Insider Trading’ via Botnet
This post, the first of two parts, was written by Raj Samani, Christiaan Beek, and Shane Shook. Want to spread malware? One of the most effective ways is to use a botnet, a network of infected...
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A Dummies Guide to ‘Insider Trading’ via Botnet, Part 2
This post, the second of two parts, was written by Christiaan Beek, Raj Samani, and Shane Shook. In our first post, we examined the evolution of the botnet. In this follow-up we will discuss a new...
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The Hidden Costs of Cyber Attacks
The real costs of cyber attacks are difficult to understand. The impacts of cybersecurity are terribly challenging to measure, which creates significant problems for organizations seeking to optimize...
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