The world woke up today to another ransomware outbreak wreaking havoc throughout companies’ networks. This time, the family causing the fuss is Ransomware Petya, a nasty variant that encrypts fil
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A recent McAfee blog ‘Malware Packers Use Tricks to Avoid Analysis, Detection’, highlighted the use of packers as an effective way to slow down analysis and decrease detection by antimalware pr
We got a little carried away in the McAfee Labs Threats Report: June 2017, published today. This quarter’s report has expanded to a rather hefty 83 pages! It contains three highly educational top
McAfee Labs has discovered that banking malware Pinkslipbot (also known as QakBot/QBot) has used infected machines as control servers since April 2016, even after its capability to steal personal a