New strain of Mac malware Proton found after two years

Last week, Kaspersky reported on a new variant of the Mac malware Proton, which they have dubbed Calisto, that has been around for at least two years. Calisto is thoroughly dead at this point, but there are still potential security implications involved with these older infections. Proton was fir...

Threat Actors Target Chinese Language News Sites

A California-based news website covering China, called China Digital Times, was targeted in a spying campaign that involved phishing lures and the use of the NetWire remote access Trojan. The attacks began in February 2017 and were part of a wider campaign of phishing, reconnaissance and malware...

SevenDust/666, AutoStart 9805

1998 The late 1990s saw the advent of more malicious malware for the Mac. Discovered a few days before Halloween 1998, the Sevendust virus would remove all files from the infected hard drive, but leave applications and one file named “666” in the Extensions folder. AutoStart, one of the first Mac...