Mcafee quarterly threat report

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McAfee Corp. Nasdaq: MCFE , the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, today released its McAfee Threats Report: April , examining cybercriminal activity related to malware and the evolution of cyber threats in the third and fourth quarters of Furthermore, ransomware and malware targeting vulnerabilities in work-related apps and processes were active and remain dangerous threats capable of taking over networks and data, while costing millions in assets and recovery costs.

Koobface Trojan. Koobface, a worm first discovered in , had been relatively flat for the last year yet it tripled in the first quarter of to levels never previously seen. The resurgence demonstrates that the cybercriminal community believes that social network users constitute a very target-rich environment of potential victims.

Spam Volume. McAfee Labs found the first increase in global spam volume in more than three years. In addition to popular "pump and dump" scams, a surge in growth hormone offers and an escalation of spam campaigns in emerging markets accounted for category growth. Targeted Espionage. McAfee's latest analysis of the Citadel Trojan found that criminals have re-purposed the bank account threat to steal personal information from narrowly targeted victims within organizations beyond financial services.

The industry should expect to see more instances of banking malware used for cyber-espionage operations within non-financial and government organizations.

MBR Attacks. Key to performing startup operations, MBRs offer an attacker a wide variety of system control, persistence, and deep penetration capabilities. Each quarter, McAfee assesses the state of the cyber threat landscape based on in-depth research, investigative analysis, and threat data gathered by the McAfee Global Threat Intelligence cloud from over a billion sensors across multiple threat vectors around the world.

This shift is reflected by the decline in prominent ransomware family types from 19 in January to 9 in March The advantage to cybercriminals is that there is zero interaction required of both the perpetrator and the victim.

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