Cybersecurity

MGT Splits From John McAfee, Turns Focus to Digital Coin Mining

  • Cybersecurity-turned-crypto firm cuts ties with tech pioneer
  • McAfee was ‘chief cybersecurity visionary’ after exit as CEO

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Controversial anti-virus software developer John McAfee will soon be, in his words, “toiling in obscurity.”

MGT Capital Investments Inc., the cybersecurity company that recently shifted its focus to Bitcoin mining, has severed its relationship with McAfee and is considering a sale or spinoff of the cybersecurity arm he was meant to run, the company said in a statement Friday.