Chinese hackers using fake McAfee software to trick users into installing virus, says Google


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Chinese government-linked hackers are now active again and continuously tricking people by making them install malware. People get tricked because it appears as the popular antivirus provider McAfee and that too via decent online platforms like GitHub and Dropbox. Experts see this move related to presidential elections in the US which are going to start from November 3 . What is Google’s take on it? The head of Google’s threat analysis group, Shane Huntley also shared a post on social media and announced this as APT-31 attacks. He said- “US government agencies have warned about different threat actors, and we’ve...