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McAfee Labs Threats Report: April 2021

In this edition, we present new findings in our traditional threat statistical categories – as well as our usual malware, sectors, and vectors – imparted in a new, enhanced digital presentation that’s more easily consumed and interpreted.

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Don’t Take a Bite out of that Apple Gift Card Scam

Good rule of thumb on the web: When it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Those ads...

Mobile Security Internet Security

BYOD: Balancing Convenience and Security

It lies next to you as you sleep, comes with you to work, rides home with you in your car...

Family Safety Privacy & Identity Protection

What Are the Risks of Geo-Location?

Using your mobile’s built-in global positioning system (GPS) functionality allows location-based services (or geo-location) to locate and publish information about...

Mobile Security

Spy? Where? Mobile Spyware Hiding Right Under Your Nose

Some days it feels like the whole world is going mobile. We tweet, we text, we browse the world from...

Family Safety

The Dilemma of Anonymity and Dangers of Ask.fm

Anonymity affords a precarious, irresistible power to teens online. Ask.fm is one app that’s exploding in popularity by allowing users...

McAfee Labs

Android App Contains Windows Worm

When developers are unaware of security they open the door to threats against their customers and users. We are not...

McAfee Labs

Java Back Door Acts as Bot

The current threat landscape is often driven by web-based malware and exploit kits that are regularly updated with newly found...

McAfee Labs

Bitcoin Miners Use AutoIt-Complied Programs With Antianalysis Code

Last year, my colleague Itai Liba blogged about the association between malware and AutoIt, a very convenient environment for malware...

Mobile Security McAfee Labs

Japanese One-Click Scammers Abuse Mobile Traffic Exchange Service

McAfee has been monitoring and reporting extensively on one-click-fraud malware for Android in Japan this year. These attacks, primarily on...

Mobile Security Family Safety

Cheating and Bullying: It’s a Bigger Problem than You Think!

The whole purpose of your “youth” is to grow and learn. It’s time to take in lots of information, so...

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