22 Sep

McAfee Enterprise Defender Blog | OMIGOD Vulnerability Opening the Door to Mirai Botnet

This month Microsoft released patches for 86 vulnerabilities. While many of these vulnerabilities are important and should be patched as soon as possible, there is

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22 Sep

Executive Spotlight: Q&A with Lead Scientist & Sr. Principal Engineer, Christiaan Beek

Welcome back to our executive blog series, where I chat with some of the pivotal players behind McAfee Enterprise and the Advanced Threat Research Team to hear

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22 Sep

BlackMatter Ransomware Analysis; The Dark Side Returns

BlackMatter is a new ransomware threat discovered at the end of July 2021. This malware started with a strong group of attacks and some advertising

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22 Sep

European Telecom Company Expands Its Footprint to Better Protect Users and Customers

Hyper-growth and a determination to stand above the crowd compelled a popular Eastern European telecom to upgrade its trusty McAfee Enterprise security infrastructure, which they

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22 Sep

“School Should Be Teaching Online Safety” says 80% of Aussie Parents

Despite the old adage that it takes a village to raise a child, new research from McAfee shows that an overwhelming majority (80%) of Aussies

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22 Sep

Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol found leaking hundreds of thousands of credentials

A flaw in Microsoft’s Autodiscover protocol, used to configure Exchange clients like Outlook, can cause user credentials to leak to miscreants in certain circumstances. The

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22 Sep

Malicious PowerPoint Documents on the Rise

Authored by Anuradha M McAfee Labs have observed a new phishing campaign that utilizes macro capabilities available in Microsoft PowerPoint. In this campaign, the spam

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22 Sep

Break out your emergency change process and patch this ransomware-friendly bug ASAP, says VMware

VMware has disclosed a critical bug in its flagship vSphere and vCenter products and urged users to drop everything and patch it. The virtualization giant

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21 Sep

Database containing personal info on 106m people who traveled to Thailand found open to the internet – report

A database containing personal information on 106 million international travelers to Thailand was exposed to the public internet this year, a Brit biz claimed this

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21 Sep

Suex to be you: Feds sanction cryptocurrency exchange for handling payments from 8+ ransomware variants

The US Treasury on Tuesday sanctioned virtual cryptocurrency exchange Suex OTC for handling financial transactions for ransomware operators, an intervention that’s part of a broad

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21 Sep

European police dismantle cybercrime ring with ties to Italian Mafia

The group used phishing, BEC and other types of attacks to swindle victims out of millions Law enforcement agencies from Europe have cracked down on

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21 Sep

Fix network printing or keep Windows secure? Admins would rather disable PrintNightmare patch

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update last week was meant to fix print vulnerabilities in Windows but also broke network printing for many, with some admins disabling

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21 Sep

UK Ministry of Defence apologises after Afghan interpreters’ personal data exposed in email blunder

The UK’s Ministry of Defence has launched an internal investigation after committing the classic CC-instead-of-BCC email error – but with the names and contact details

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21 Sep

Mafia works remotely, too, it seems: 100+ people suspected of phishing, SIM swapping, email fraud cuffed

Police arrested 106 people suspected of carrying out online fraud for an organized crime gang linked to the Italian Mafia, Europol said on Monday. Most

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21 Sep

You’ve trained at the cutting edge, here’s how to keep your DFIR skills razor sharp

Sponsored There’s nothing like five or six days of in-depth training with SANS Institute to develop cutting-edge Digital Forensics and Incident Response security skills. But

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20 Sep

Apache OpenOffice can be hijacked by malicious documents, fix still in beta

Apache OpenOffice (AOO) is currently vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability and while the app’s source code has been patched, the fix has only

Author rabih
20 Sep

Ransomware recovery: Start getting back up before you’re even hit

Sponsored What’s the first step to recovering from a ransomware attack? Making sure you have a recovery plan in place well before you get attacked.

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20 Sep

McAfee Enterprise Defender Blog | MSHTML CVE-2021-40444

Microsoft is warning its users of a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10 and versions of Windows Server that is being leveraged by remote, unauthenticated attackers

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