McAfee will recruit more young people in cyber threat research push

McAfee is to invest more money and resources into researching cyber threats.

The cyber security company, which launched as a standalone company in April, has announced it will focus on investigating the world’s most sophisticated cyber warfare and cyber crime campaigns.

Findings from this research will then be used by McAfee to help its customers better understand the technology and tactics of attackers.

The research will concentrate on areas such as advanced malware, ransomware, financial fraud, general cyber crime, cyber espionage, cyber warfare and protecting industrial control systems.

McAfee will also recruit more young people to join its ranks of cyber security professionals.

To emphasis its efforts in fighting cyber crime, McAfee has released what it claims is evidence that a series of Shamoon malware campaigns targeting Saudi Arabia are the work of one coordinated force of attackers, rather than that of multiple independent renegade hacker groups.

McAfee’s chief technology officer Steve Grobman said: “McAfee is committed to bringing together world-class threat intelligence, vulnerability research and investigative expertise to provide customers more insights into how specific malicious actors develop and wage cyber attacks.”