• McAfee launched a new brand and product experience aimed at reducing the time and attention consumers spend verifying online activity amid rising scam volumes.
• Rollout begins in the US, shifting positioning from device security toward broader protection for personal information, accounts, connections, devices.
• Product design emphasizes earlier risk detection, clearer guidance, automatic actions, with alerts for suspicious messages, links, sites, unsafe connections.
• Move follows McAfee research showing 74% of Americans double-check most online activity, 62% say verification takes more effort than a year ago.
• Data also showed 31% reported losing money to scams in the past year, with 53% of victims recovering none of the losses.

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