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Privacy & Identity Protection
It’s ‘Game Over’ for Zeus and CryptoLocker
Under Operation Tovar, global law enforcement—in conjunction with the private sector and McAfee—has launched an action to...Jun 02, 2014 | 4 MIN READ
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Necurs, Zbot Use Obfuscated Windows XP Detection to Bypass Analysis
This blog was written by Sanchit Karve. McAfee Labs has recently come across a number of malware...May 21, 2014 | 6 MIN READ
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Product Coverage and Mitigation for CVE-2014-1776 (Microsoft Internet Explorer)
On April 26, Microsoft released Security Advisory 2963983 for Microsoft Internet Explorer. In-the-wild exploitation of this vulnerability...Apr 28, 2014 | 2 MIN READ
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Product Coverage and Mitigation for CVE-2014-1761 (Microsoft Word)
On March 24, Microsoft released Security Advisory 2953095 for Microsoft Word. In-the-wild exploitation of this vulnerability has...Mar 25, 2014 | 2 MIN READ
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January 2014 #SecChat Wrap-up — Threat Predictions
Threats seem to be top of mind for the masses of late—with three large-scale attacks on major...Feb 07, 2014 | 4 MIN READ
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Analyzing the Target Point-of-Sale Malware
January 21, 2014: As more information comes to light, surrounding these events, we continue to identify and...Jan 16, 2014 | 4 MIN READ
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2014 Threats Predictions: Network and Host Attacks Will Again Target Apps, Java
This post is one in a series of articles that expand on the recently released McAfee Labs...Jan 13, 2014 | 5 MIN READ
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2014 Threats Predictions: Cybercrime and Hacktivism Will Continue to Grow
This post is one in a series of articles that expand on the recently released McAfee Labs...Jan 08, 2014 | 6 MIN READ
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2014 Threats Predictions: Software Defined Networking And More
This post is one in a series of articles that expand on the recently released McAfee Labs...Jan 06, 2014 | 3 MIN READ
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2014 Threats Predictions: Cloud Attacks Could Lead to Data Loss
This post is one in a series of articles that expand on the recently released McAfee Labs...Dec 31, 2013 | 3 MIN READ
McAfee News
Updates and Mitigation to Microsoft Office Zero-Day Threat (CVE-2013-3906)
On November 5, Microsoft posted Security Advisory 2896666. This vulnerability, discovered by Haifei Li of McAfee Labs, affects multiple...Nov 06, 2013 | 2 MIN READ
Executive Perspectives
Operation Troy: OpenIOC Release
In conjunction with our investigation into Operation Troy, we will be releasing IOC data in the...Jul 12, 2013 | < 1 MIN READ