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Vultur banking malware for Android poses as McAfee Security app

Security researchers found a new version of the Vultur banking trojan for Android that includes more advanced remote control capabilities and an improved evasion mechanism.
- Bill Toulas
- March 30, 2024
- 11:56 AM
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Trend Micro fixes bug Chinese hackers exploited for espionage

Trend Micro says it patched a DLL hijacking flaw in Trend Micro Security used by a Chinese threat group to side-load malicious DLLs and deploy malware.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 24, 2022
- 12:09 PM
- 0
McAfee Agent bug lets hackers run code with Windows SYSTEM privileges

McAfee Enterprise (now rebranded as Trellix) has patched a security vulnerability discovered in the company's McAfee Agent software for Windows enabling attackers to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 21, 2022
- 08:22 AM
- 0
Antivirus creator John McAfee reportedly found dead in prison cell

Former antivirus software creator John McAfee has died in what is reported to be a suicide as he waited for extradition to face tax evasion charges in the USA.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 23, 2021
- 04:41 PM
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US indicts John McAfee for cryptocurrency fraud, money laundering

US federal prosecutors have charged John McAfee, founder of cybersecurity firm McAfee, and his executive advisor Jimmy Gale Watson Jr for cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 05, 2021
- 05:16 PM
- 2
McAfee Patches Privilege Escalation Flaw in Antivirus Software

McAfee patched a security vulnerability discovered in all editions of its Antivirus software for Windows and enabling potential attackers to escalate privileges and execute code using SYSTEM privileges.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 12, 2019
- 11:00 AM
- 1
DealPly Adware Abuses Microsoft Smartscreen to Boost AV Evasion

Security researchers have uncovered a new DealPly variant which uses a new method to avoid detection by abusing the reputation services provided by Microsoft's SmartScreen and McAfee's WebAdvisor.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 01, 2019
- 02:37 PM
- 0
Bad McAfee Exploit Prevention Update Blocked Windows Logins

An update for the McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) security software was released today that caused major headaches for system administrators all over the world as it prevented users from being able to login to their computers.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 10, 2019
- 05:46 PM
- 2
Beware of Fake John McAfee and Tesla Cryptocurrency Giveaways

A resurgence of scam campaigns that pretend to be Bitcoin and Ethereum giveaways from Tesla, Elon Musk, and John McAfee are underway. These scams rise in popularity as cryptocurrency prices increase.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 23, 2019
- 01:18 PM
- 0
Fxmsp Chat Logs Reveal the Hacked Antivirus Vendors, AVs Respond

A report last week about Fxmsp hacker group claiming access to the networks and source code of three antivirus companies with offices in the U.S. generated statements from alleged victims that are disputed by the firm that sounded the alarm.
- Ionut Ilascu
- May 13, 2019
- 07:25 PM
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Windows April Updates Also Have Problems with McAfee Software

With the release of the Microsoft April 2019 Patch Tuesday updates, some Windows users began to discover that Windows 7 and 8.1 was suddenly booting slower or would freeze. It was determined that this was due to conflicts with antivirus software such as Sophos, Avast, AVG, and now McAfee.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 22, 2019
- 06:22 PM
- 5
McAfee Tech Support Scam Harvesting Credit Card Information

A new tech support scam pretending to be from McAfee was discovered last week that is harvesting credit card details and personal information of its victims.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 22, 2018
- 08:55 AM
- 0
Necurs and Gamut Botnets Account for 97% of the Internet's Spam Emails

Just two botnets accounted for 97% of all spam emails in the last three months of 2017, according to a McAfee report released earlier today.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 12, 2018
- 05:20 AM
- 0
Intel Security (McAfee) Releases Rootkit Scanner Following Vault 7 CIA Leak

Intel Security, soon to be rebranded as McAfee again, released on Wednesday a scanner that can identify hidden EFI firmware rootkits.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 11, 2017
- 04:10 AM
- 0
Dutch Police seize WildFire Locker Command and Control Servers. Decryptors Released.

As part of the NoMoreRansom.org initiative, the National High Tech Crime Unit of the Dutch Police were able to seize the Command & Control server for the WildFire Locker ransomware. This allowed them to recover approximately 5,800 decryption keys that were used by McAfee and Kaspersky to create free decryptors for WildFire victims.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 24, 2016
- 07:17 PM
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