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McAfee Labs 2019 Cybersecurity Threats Predictions: Underground Cybercriminal Collaboration to Propel Threat Volume and Ingenuity Predictions – Cybercriminal underground to consolidate and collaborate through stronger partnerships Prevalence of attack outsourcing will lead to use of artificial intelligence in evasion tactics Bad actors will combine multiple attack types to create synergistic superthreats Cybercriminals to use bots, …
Cryptocurrency Mining and Cryptojacking Offer Cybercriminals Lower Risk, Higher Efficacy, Ease of Monetization of Efforts; Adding Passive Exploitation to Portolio of Ransomware Extortion, Data Breach Theft, and Fraud McAfee Labs sees coin miner malware grow 629% in Q1 2018 Lazarus cryptocurrency campaigns steal bitcoins from financial sector and users Gold Dragon targets Winter Games to …
Drive Record New Malware Surge Cybercriminals Leverage Microsoft Office Exploits, Fileless PowerShell Threats, Locky “Lutikus” Ransomware, Banking Trojans to Create Four New Malware Samples per Second in Q3 2017 McAfee Labs reports record volume of new malware, surges 10% in Q3 2017 with 57.6 million samples Fileless malware leveraging Microsoft PowerShell grew …
McAfee Forecasts Developments in Adversarial Machine Learning, Ransomware, Serverless Apps, Connected Home Privacy, and Privacy of Child-Generated Content McAfee Labs predicts an adversarial machine learning “arms race” between attackers and defenders Ransomware to evolve from traditional PC extortion to IoT, high net-worth users, and corporate disruption Serverless Apps to create attack opportunities targeting …
McAfee Labs Report Finds 93% of Security Operations Center Managers Overwhelmed by Alerts and Unable to Triage Potential Threats Security Operations Center Survey Respondents Acknowledge Inability to Keep Up with Cyber Security Alerts or Triage Relevant Events for Investigation NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Enterprise security operations center survey found 93% of respondents acknowledged being …
Delayed Software Updates Enable Cybercriminals to Exploit Mobile Apps; Pinkslipbot Trojan Returns with New Capabilities NEWS HIGHLIGHTS McAfee Labs identifies more than 5,000 versions of 21 consumer mobile apps containing colluding code capable of a variety of malicious activities New strain of Pinkslipbot Trojan features anti-analysis and multi-layered encryption New ransomware grew 24% …
Survey of 500 Cybersecurity Professionals Gauges Adoption and Perceived Value of Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing in Enterprise Cybersecurity; New Ransomware Surges 26 Percent in Q4 HIGHLIGHTS Only 42 percent of surveyed cybersecurity professionals report using shared cyber threat intelligence. Survey respondents perceive the greatest barriers to cyber threat intelligence sharing are corporate policies …
Intel Security Predictions Provide Two Valuable Sets of Insights for Organizations Developing Near-Term IT Security Plans and Long-Range Security Strategies India: November 18, 2015 — Intel® Security released its McAfee Labs Threats Predictions Report, which predicts key developments on the cyber threat landscape in 2016, and provides unique insights into the expected nature of that …
Report Reveals Massive Growth in New Ransomware and Praises Adobe Security Team’s Speed in Addressing 42 Adobe Flash Vulnerabilities in Q1 2015 News Highlights: New ransomware surges 165 percent in Q1 2015 largely due to proliferation of the CTB-Locker family and its “affiliate” program, a new ransomware family called Teslacrypt, and new versions of …
Report finds 18 of 25 Top Mobile Apps Reported Vulnerable in September 2014 Remain Unpatched; Unsecured Web Sessions Leave Millions Open to Man-in-the-Middle Attacks India, 24 February 2015 – Intel® Security today released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: February 2015, including assessments of the mobile threat landscape and the failure of mobile app developers …