A Look at Locky Ransomware’s Recent Spam Activities
Ransomware has been one of the most prevalent, prolific, and pervasive threats in the 2017 threat landscape, with financial losses among enterprises and end users now likely to have reached billions of dollars. Locky ransomware, in particular, has come a long way since first emerging in early 2016. Despite the number of times it apparently […] more…From Cybercrime to Cyberpropaganda
By Daniel Lunghi (Threat Researcher) A couple of common questions that arise whenever cyberpropaganda and hacktivism issues come up: who engages in it? Where do the people acquire the tools, skills, and techniques used? As it turns out, in at least one case, it comes from the traditional world of cybercrime. We’ve come across a case […] more…Conquering Fear at McAfee
By Radhika, Director of Global Consumer Product Marketing. With the U.S. school year beginning, I’ve been in touch with the jitters my three kids feel as they get their own “startup” energy going. This is especially true with my older son, who is starting college with plans to study bioengineering. He’s experiencing what anyone feels […] more…Comcast Maintenance
On Wednesday, October 25th @ 5:00 AM Comcast will be performing maintenance work on a fiber circuit that will affect multiple customers. This will also cause our peering with Comcast at the border to go down and come back up again. The work is expected to be completed in under 5 minutes. Most of the […] more…October is Bullying Prevention Month. Are You Willing to Do Just One Thing?
Life is busy. Events, celebrations, and deadlines fight for space on the family calendar. It’s so easy to zoom through October, which also happens to be Bullying Prevention Month. But please don’t. Because your child needs you to know a few things and chances are, he or she is not going to bring it up […] more…The Future of Cyber Safety: Could Artificial Intelligence Be The Silver Bullet?
Stay Safe Online Week 2017 Cyber safety: outsourcing to experts makes such sense! Like most multi-tasking millennium mums, I’m a BIG fan of outsourcing: ironing, cleaning and gardening – it just makes such sense! Why not get an expert involved so you can focus on the things you love? Smart, I say! But did you […] more…The McAfee Adventures of a Middle School Teacher
By Lori, AVID Teacher, Haggard Middle School I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen. – A.A. Milne My own adventure from the classroom and into corporate America began with an email from my school district – Plano ISD. To enrich the classroom-to-career connection, PISD partnered up with the Mayor’s Summer […] more…Wireless – ATTWiFi Service Degradation
ATTWiFi Service is currently operating in a degraded state. EIT ENCS Staff are in contact with the vendor and are working to determine the scope of the impact area. Wireless networks in the following buildings are known to be impacted at this time: Carnegie Marion Place Sparks 224 S. Allen 300 Bldg Allenway Calder Square […] more…Cybersecurity Supermom: Take Charge and Become the IT Pro in Your Home
Wouldn’t it be great if we all had our own IT department at home? Think about it. If we had a tech problem, we could just call the IT guy, and he’d emerge from the guest room and take care of all our pesky problems. Unfortunately, that scenario isn’t going to happen. However, with technology […] more…Business Process Compromise and the Underground’s Economy of Coupon Fraud
by Vladimir Kropotov and Fyodor Yarochkin (Senior Threat Researchers) The fraudulent redemption of freebies, discounts, and rebates in the form of coupons is reportedly costing U.S. businesses $300–600 million every year. And where there’s money to be made, there are cybercriminals rustling up schemes to take advantage of it. Unsurprisingly, that was the case when […] more…To Unplug Or Not To Unplug? That Is The Holiday Question
If you’re heading away these holidays, it’s likely you’ve workshopped the idea of whether to ‘unplug’ – and I’m not referring to turning off your electricity. Unplugging means turning off devices and disconnecting from the internet – yes, a digital detox! Deep breaths, people, we can talk about this calmly. New research commissioned by McAfee […] more…ZNIU: First Android Malware to Exploit Dirty COW Vulnerability
By Jason Gu, Veo Zhang, and Seven Shen We have disclosed this security issue to Google, who verified that they have protections in place against ZNIU courtesy of Google Play Protect. The Linux vulnerability called Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) was first disclosed to the public in 2016. The vulnerability was discovered in upstream Linux platforms such […] more…Verizon Engineer Exposes Internal System Data
Researchers discovered an unprotected Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket containing potentially sensitive information associated with a system used internally by Verizon. read more more…EITest Campaign Uses Tech Support Scams to Deliver Coinhive’s Monero Miner
We’ve uncovered the notorious EITest campaign delivering a JavaScript (JS) cryptocurrency miner (detected by Trend Micro as HKTL_COINMINE) using tech support scams as a social engineering lure. These are fraud activities impersonating legitimate technical support services, conning unwitting victims to avail/pay for these services (or hand out financial data), by scaring them that their machine […] more…The importance of cyber self-defense education
As recent headlines have highlighted, one thing is clear; there is still a lot of work that needs to be done in the world of cybersecurity. Whether it is companies being breached or personal data being offered to the highest bidder, it is an incredibly challenging job to keep everyone safe online. In order to […] more…Siemens, PAS Partner on Industrial Cybersecurity
Engineering giant Siemens and PAS, a company that specializes in cyber security solutions for industrial control systems (ICS), announced on Tuesday a new strategic partnership. read more more…More information
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