Though many of its now-famous hidden marketplaces have been taken down by law enforcement, the darknet continues to be a home for the web’s seediest characters. The latest item to hit the market and generate buzz isn’t an illegal substance — instead, it’s illegal software….
March 22, 2017 • 2 min read
A brand-new type of malware affecting Macs is in the wild, and this time there are definite signs of development in conjunction with a foreign nation. Designed (albeit rather poorly) to look like a Flash update, this malware, dubbed MacDownloader, is a unsophisticaed attempt to…
February 17, 2017 • 2 min readThe latest item of Mac malware to be uncovered is actually not new at all; in fact, it may have been around for several years. Dubbed “Fruitfly” by Apple, this malware has some novel features. In particular, its function depends upon using both an outdated…
January 31, 2017 • 2 min readThough the threat of computer viruses once lurked primarily in the domain of email attachments and suspicious file downloads, the current landscape is vastly different. Simply doing damage to a system and spreading a virus further is no longer the biggest threat. From spyware to…
September 16, 2016 • 3 min read
Last year, the spyware developer Hacking Team seemed to go down in flames after a massive internal leak exposed the company’s dirty secrets for the world to see. Prior to that occurrence, the Milan-based firm had been in operation since 2003, selling products to governments,…
March 14, 2016 • 3 min readUpdated: February 12, 2014 OSX/CoinThief has been distributed under four different names so far: BitVanity, StealthBit, Bitcoin Ticker TTM, and Litecoin Ticker. BitVanity and StealthBit were distributed on Github, while Bitcoin Ticker TTM and Litecoin Ticker were distributed on Download.com and MacUpdate.com. Both app names…
February 9, 2014 • 4 min readMalware: OSX/CoinThief.A Date Discovered: February 9th, 2014 Updated: February 13, 2014 Added: Feb 13th 2014: Wednesday evening, Apple updated XProtect to defend against the two known variants of OSX/CoinThief. SecureMac has more information on how the CoinThief malware is initially installed on infected systems, with…
February 9, 2014 • 6 min readThe links for many popular Mac apps on CNET’s download.com have been replaced with a “CNET installer” that installs toolbar adware and changes browser settings. This guide shows how to identify affected apps, how to avoid the toolbar installer, how to determine if it has…
October 13, 2013 • 4 min readUpdate (10/29/13 12:15pm): SecureMac has prepared a guide to help users identify and remove the adware being distributed by CNET’s download.com in place of popular Mac apps. The guide provides detailed information, including step-by-step instructions to determine if the adware is installed on your system,…
October 13, 2013 • 2 min readFrom Doctor Web, the Russian anti-virus vendor—”conducted a research to determine the scale of spreading of Trojan BackDoor.Flashback that infects computers running Mac OS X. Now BackDoor.Flashback botnet encompasses more than 550 000 infected machines, most of which are located in the United States and Canada. This once again refutes claims by some experts that there are no cyber-threats to Mac OS X.”
April 4, 2012 • 1 min readSecureMac has learned of a new piece of Mac malware that is currently in the wild and infecting computers running OS X. As first reported at http://labs.alienvault.com/labs/index.php/2012/alienvault-research-used-as-lure-in-targeted-attacks/ this piece of malware exploits a vulnerability in computers running older, unpatched versions of Java.
March 20, 2012 • 2 min readSecureMac Security Bulletin Posted: May 2nd, 2011 Security Risk: Low A new privacy and security threat is targeting computers running Apple’s Mac OS X disguised as an anti-virus program called MAC Defender. The fake anti-virus program will “detect” nonexistent threats as being present on the…
May 12, 2011 • 6 min read