The tactic represents the kind of digital spying technique that would have given hackers access to machines belonging to job applicants positioned near military organizations — just the kind of targets that a foreign government would value.

McAfee’s Rajiv Gupta provides insight on the benefits of a smarter, more progressive approach to cloud technology, while also ensuring that data protection is a priority.

McAfee previously tweeted "taxation is illegal."

Stock in the Silicon Valley cybersecurity giant will be available for the first time in more than a decade. Intel had spun it off to a buyout firm in 2017.

This time, the spies were trying to get access to European defense firms, McAfee says.

Surges in collaboration tool use and cloud demands open enterprise networks to new risks and threat actors are taking notice, a new McAfee report finds.