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McAfee Discovers Pinkslipbot Exploiting Infected Machines as Control Servers
This blog was written by Sanchit Karve. McAfee Labs has discovered that banking malware Pinkslipbot (also known...Is WannaCry Really Ransomware?
This post summarizes the significant efforts of a McAfee threat research team that has been relentless in...Misuse of DocuSign Email Addresses Leads to Phishing Campaign
DocuSign, which provides electronic signatures and digital transaction management, reported that email addresses were stolen by an...Fake WannaCry ‘Protectors’ Emerge on Google Play
Are Android devices affected by the self-propagating ransomware WannaCry? No—because this threat exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft...How to Protect Against WannaCry Ransomware in a McAfee Environment
This post was updated on May 31 with links to three McAfee community videos concerning WannaCry ransomware. ...Adylkuzz CoinMiner Spreading Like WannaCry
The last few days have been very busy for security teams all around the globe due to...Analysis of Chrysaor Keylogging Mechanism Shows Power of Simple Malicious Code
Many attacks on mobile devices use social engineering to initially infect a victim’s system. They download malware...Further Analysis of WannaCry Ransomware
McAfee Labs has closely monitored the activity around the ransomware WannaCry. Many sources have reported on this...WannaCry: The Old Worms and the New
The morning of Friday, May 12 multiple sources in Spain began reporting an outbreak of the ransomware...An Analysis of the WannaCry Ransomware Outbreak
Charles McFarland was a coauthor of this blog. Over the course of Friday, May 12 we received...Vulnerable OpenSSL Handshake Renegotiation Can Trigger Denial of Service
OpenSSL, the popular general-purpose cryptographic library that implements SSL/TLS protocols for web authentication, has recently suffered from...Mirai, BrickerBot, Hajime Attack a Common IoT Weakness
This blog post was written by Rick Simon. We know that devices in the Internet of Things...
