Apple Issues Incomplete Patches for Gatekeeper Bypass

Apple has had two cracks at patching a vulnerability that allows malicious apps to bypass its OS X Gatekeeper security feature, and twice has taken a shortcut approach to the fix, said the researcher who reported the flaw. The latest measure to address this was released on Thursday and it appears...

Bypassing OSX Security Tools is Trivial, Researcher Says

SAN FRANCISCO–For years, Apple has enjoyed a pretty good reputation among users for the security of its products. That halo has been enhanced by the addition of new security features such as Gatekeeper and XProtect to OS X recently, but one researcher said that all of those protections are simple...

New Mac OS Malware exploited two known Java vulnerabilities

A new Mac OS Malware has been discovered called OSX/Leverage.A, which appears to be yet another targeted command-and-control Trojan horse, that creates a backdoor on an affected user's machine. The Trojan named 'Leverage' because the Trojan horse is distributed as an application disguised as a...

New Mac OS Malware exploited two known Java vulnerabilities

A new Mac OS Malware has been discovered called OSX/Leverage.A, which appears to be yet another targeted command-and-control Trojan horse, that creates a backdoor on an affected user’s machine. The Trojan named 'Leverage' because the Trojan horse is distributed as an application disguised as a...

Clues About Flashback Creator Come Together

Nearly a year since the Flashback Trojan surfaced and ultimately infected more than 600,000 Apple OS X computers, the author of the malware may haven been discovered. After some sleuthing by security bloggers Brian Krebs over the past year – documented today on the Krebs on Security blog – the...

Apple Begins to Blacklist Old Versions of Flash for Safari

Similar to what Mozilla did in its Firefox browser earlier this year, Apple has elected to block old, out-of-date versions of Adobe’s Flash Player product in Safari in hopes of getting users to update their systems. According to a support document posted to its site on Friday, Apple updated...

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...

Flashback Mac Trojan Hits More than 500K Machines

The Flashback Trojan that has been infecting Mac OSX machines of late appears to have become the most successful piece of Mac-based malware in the short history of such things. Researchers say that there have been upwards of 500,000 Macs infected by the malware, and that number may still rise...

Mac OS X XProtect Detection

The remote Mac OS X host includes XProtect, an antivirus / anti- malware application from Apple included with recent releases of Snow Leopard 10.6 and later. It is used to scan files that have been downloaded from the Internet by browsers and other tools. Note that this plugin only gathers...

Mac OS X XProtect Installed

There is a problem with the installation of the Apple XProtect application on the remote Mac OS X host - either updates are not enabled / running or its definitions are out of date. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid56568; scriptversion"1.57";...

Flashback Trojan Now Disabling Mac XProtect

Mac-based malware is still a relatively rare occurrence when compared to the flood of malicious programs aimed at Windows. But, it appears that the attackers who are creating the more recent Mac malware either have experience writing Windows-based malware or are simply paying close attention to...

Apple Updates XProtect to Detect Mac Trojan

Apple released an update today for its built-in, malware protection platform, XProtect, in response to the emergence of Mac-targeting trojan that hijacks Google searches, according to an article posted on Softpedia. Once the trojan has installed itself on a user’s machine, it starts adding fake...

Back-and-Forth to Continue Between Macdefender and Apple

There is a serious game of back-and-forth going on between the security team over at Apple and the developers of the Macdefender malware. As reported by Threatpost, Apple deployed a patch to remedy the troubling fake AV, then shortly after that, the developers of Macdefender altered their methods...