A week in security (April 8 – April 14)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: How to change your Social Security Number Apple warns people of mercenary attacks via threat notification system How to check if your data was exposed in the AT&T breach Microsoft’s April 2024 Patch Tuesday includes two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities H...

No.1 Adware Removal Tool On Apple App Store Caught Spying On Mac Users

A highly popular top-tier app in Apple's Mac App Store that's designed to protect its users from adware and malware threats has been, ironically, found surreptitiously stealing their browsing history without their consent, and sending it to a server in China. What's more concerning? Even after...

MacOSX 10.0.X Permissions uncorrectly set

Permissions of /Users/yourname/Desktop which show your desktop is xrwxrwxrwx, allowing every user to read/write on your own Desktop folder. Fix: chmod 755 or chmod 750 /Users/yourname/Desktop Apple have been warned long ago and as of 10.0.4 it is stil not fixed. Les moines...