On Monday, Shares of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), lost -1.70% to $31.30.
Intel® Security, released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: May 2015, which comprises revelations on the rapid proliferation of new ransomware, HDD and SSD firmware attacks by the Equation Group computer espionage group, and a major enhance in malware targeting Adobe Flash multimedia software.
In the first quarter of 2015, McAfee Labs registered a 165 percent enhance in new ransomware driven largely by the new, hard-to-detect CTB-Locker ransomware family, a new ransomware family called Teslacrypt, and the emergence of new versions of CryptoWall, TorrentLocker and BandarChor. McAfee Labs attributes CTB-Locker’s success to clever techniques for evading security software, higher-quality phishing emails, and an “associate” program that offers accomplices a percentage of ransom payments in return for flooding cyberspace with CTB-Locker phishing messages.
The first quarter also saw new Adobe Flash malware samples enhance by 317 percent - researchers attribute the rise to several factors: the popularity of Adobe Flash as a technology; user delay in applying accessible Adobe Flash patches; new methods to exploit product vulnerabilities; a steep enhance in the number of mobile devices that can play Adobe Flash files (.swf); and the difficulty of detecting some Adobe Flash exploits. Researchers are seeing a continued shift in focus among exploit kit developers, from Java archive and Microsoft Silverlight vulnerabilities to Adobe Flash vulnerabilities.
Intel Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells integrated digital technology platforms worldwide. It operates through PC Client Group, Data Center Group, Internet of Things Group, Mobile and Communications Group, Software and Services, and All Other segments.
Shares of MGM Resorts International (NYSE:MGM), declined -5.47% to $19.17, during its last trading session, following an analyst note from Stern Agee suggesting that early returns from the Macau gaming region show that revenue is once again falling in June for a thirteenth successive month of declines.
The Macau gaming region in China is the only region in China where the country’s 1.5 billion citizens can legally gamble. However, after strong early returns following its debut as a gambling hub in 2006, the region has seen a decline in activity amid a Chinese government’s crackdown on corruption.
MGM Resorts International, through its auxiliaries, owns and/or operates casino resorts. It operates through two segments, Wholly Owned Domestic Resorts and MGM China. The company’s casino resorts offer gaming, hotel, convention, dining, entertainment, retail, and other resort amenities.
Finally, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (NYSE:FCAU), ended its last trade with -0.38% loss, and closed at $15.59.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’s Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne is reaching out to hedge funds and activist investors to assist persuade General Motors Co (GM.N) to agree to a merger, the Wall Street Journal stated, citing people familiar with the matter, according to Reuters.
Marchionne has been emboldened by recent successes of activist investors at GM and sees them as a means to consolidate the auto industry, the newspaper cited the people as saying. Reuters Reports.
Fiat Chrysler and GM were not right away accessible for comment outside regular U.S. business hours. Reuters added.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V., an automotive group, designs, engineers, manufactures, distributes, and sells vehicles and components. It offers passenger cars, light trucks, and light commercial vehicles under the Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Fiat Professional, Jeep, Lancia, and Ram brand names, in addition to after-sales services and parts under the Mopar brand name.
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