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Operation NoVoice: Rootkit Tells No Tales
Mar 31, 2026 | 15 MIN READ
Nemty Ransomware – Learning by Doing
Executive Summary The McAfee Advanced Threat Research Team (ATR) observed a new ransomware family named ‘Nemty’ on...
Ransomware Maze
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Maze ransomware, previously known in the community as “ChaCha ransomware”, was discovered on May...
SMBGhost – Analysis of CVE-2020-0796
The Vulnerability The latest vulnerability in SMBv3 is a “wormable” vulnerability given its potential ability to replicate...
Android/LeifAccess.A is the Silent Fake Reviewer Trojan
The McAfee Mobile Research team has identified an Android malware family dubbed Android/LeifAccess.A that has been active...
Multi-tricks HiddenAds Malware
Thousands of HiddenAds Trojan Apps Masquerade as Google Play Apps The McAfee mobile research team has recently...
CSI: Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks – Part II
In our first article we discussed the growing pattern of targeted ransomware attacks where the first infection...
Model Hacking ADAS to Pave Safer Roads for Autonomous Vehicles
The last several years have been fascinating for those of us who have been eagerly observing the...
Introduction and Application of Model Hacking
Catherine Huang, Ph.D., and Shivangee Trivedi contributed to this blog. The term “Adversarial Machine Learning” (AML) is...
CSI: Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks – Part I
For many years now I have been working and teaching in the field of digital forensics, malware...
Knock, Knock – Who’s There?
A Windows Linux Subsystem Interop Analysis Following our research from Evil Twins and Windows Linux Subsystem, interoperability...
How Chinese Cybercriminals Use Business Playbook to Revamp Underground
Preface Because of its longevity and technical sophistication, the Russian cybercriminal underground has long been the benchmark...
Intelligence in the Enterprise
Intelligence became an integral military discipline centuries ago. More recently, this practice evolved into what is called Intelligence Preparation...
