Hackers infect Mac users with Proton malware using Elmedia Player

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A new kind of Apple phishing scam

In a recent blog post, Felix Krause revealed a method for phishing Apple ID passwords on iOS that would be quite indistinguishable from a real iOS password request. This got us thinking about the ramifications—how else could this tactic be used in the Apple ecosystem, and what kind of damage coul...

Critical Flaw in ESET Antivirus Exposes Mac Users to Remote Hacking

What could be more exciting for hackers than exploiting a vulnerability in a widely used software without having to struggle too much? One such easy-to-exploit, but critical vulnerability has been discovered in ESET's antivirus software that could allow any unauthenticated attackers to remotely...

WhatsApp launches Desktop Software for Windows and Mac Users

The most popular messaging app WhatsApp now has a fully functional desktop app – both for Mac as well as Windows platform. Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging software has been a mobile-only messaging platform forever, but from Tuesday, the company is offering you its desktop application for both...

Typosquatters Target Mac Users With New .OM Domain Scam

Typosquatters are targeting Apple computer users with malware in a recent campaign that snares clumsy web surfers who mistakenly type .om instead of .com when surfing the web. According to Endgame security researchers, the top level domain for Middle Eastern country Oman .om is being exploited by...

KeRanger OS X Ransomware Impact Likely Mitigated

It’s likely that the first functional ransomware for OS X is a dud. Discovered on Friday by researchers at Palo Alto Networks, the KeRanger ransomware sits dormant for three days before encrypting files from a comprehensive list of 300 file extensions; today would be Day 3. The malware was includ...

Google Changes Policy on Chrome Extensions

Google is rolling out a new policy that will force all Windows and Mac users to install Chrome extensions only from the Chrome Web store. The company last year began enforcing this policy for Windows users on the main, stable channel for Chrome. Google offers several different channels for Chrome...

Viscosity - Local Privilege Escalation

Viscosity - Local Privilege Escalation !/bin/sh Viscatory zx2c4 After the hullabaloo from the Tunnelblick local root, savy Mac users began defending Viscosity, another OS X VPN client. They figured, since they spent money on Viscosity, surely it would be better designed than the free open-source...

Scareware/MacDefender

2011 MacDefender popped up in mid-2011. It mimicked the widely deployed and largely successful scareware scams that have been owning Windows machines for years. The phishing scam worked by redirecting Mac-users from legitimate websites to fake ones that attempted to convince users that their...

OSX/iWorkS-A Trojan

2009 Discovered by Symantec in 2009, iWorkS was first identified in a version of the iWork 09 suite that popped up on file sharing sites with a trojan horse added to the installer. The incident was noteworthy for a few reasons: iWork is and was a fairly popular software suite, and, according to...

Apple Releases Fix For Flashback Malware

Apple has released another fix for Java that also is designed to remove several of the variants of the Flashback Trojan that have been plaguing Mac users for months now. The update, released on Thursday, is the latest in a series of attempts by the company to address the Flashback situation. The...

Many Mac Users Running Vulnerable Java Versions

Researchers have known for a long time that many users don’t pay much attention to updating the third-party software, browser plugins and extensions, and that lack of care has been to the benefit of attackers for years. Attacks on Flash, Java, QuickTime and various other ubiquitous apps have been...

Apple Developing Fix For Flashback Malware

Apple is planning to release a software fix that will find and remove the Flashback malware that has been haunting Mac users for several months now. The latest version of Flashback has built a botnet that at times has included more than 600,000 infected machines. Apple said on Tuesday that it was...

US Airways Spam Redirects to Blackhole, Zeus Infection

Cybercriminals are targeting US Airways customers with malicious spam emails containing a link that, once clicked, initiates a series of redirects, eventually leading users to a domain hosting the Blackhole exploit kit. The fraudulent email presents itself as a check-in notification from US...

MacControl Trojan Being Used in Targeted Attacks Against OS X Users

Welcome to the age of targeted attacks, Mac users. Perhaps having grown tired of owning Windows machines around the world for the last few years, attackers in China now have taken up the challenge of going after Macs with the same kind of targeted attack tactics that have served them so well in t...

Mozilla Fixes Firefox 9 Crash Issue With Update

Mozilla followed up its Firefox 9 release earlier this week with an update aimed at swatting a bug causing browsers to crash. The fix was issued Wednesday with Firefox 9.0.1, and addresses the issue for users across Mac, Windows and Linux, though Mac users were reportedly affected the most. The...

Most common malware detected on Macs !

Recently Sophos launched its free Mac anti-virus for home users which now has 150,000 active users and Sophos has analyzed the most commonly encountered malware that Mac users are seeing. The top 20 most commonly detected malware from just under 50,000 malware reports between November 2nd and...

New Mac Phishing Attack

An email which purports to relate to a recent Apple retail transaction and asks for details of any recent orders is out there. The email also carries a stuffed file. This contains an ‘exe’ file which will only launch on a Windows machine. The email reads: “We recorded a payment request from ‘Appl...

Mac Users: Phishers Are Platform Agnostic

Yes, Mac fans, virus writers continue to focus primarily on Windows, since nine of 10 computers connected to the Web are PCs. However, phishers are platform agnostic. And right now phishing attacks are surging. Phishers rely on social engineering to victimize Web users. And their latest...