BitTorrent Client Exposes Users to First Known Piece of OS X Ransomware Unlucky BitTorrent users who installed the latest version of Transmission over the weekend unwittingly exposed themselves to the first known piece of ransomware seen in the wild for OS X. According to a…
March 7, 2016 • 4 min read
Security Advisory update issued: 05/08/2015 MacKeeper has posted an advisory on their blog detailing the security issue and the steps they have taken in response. A new version of MacKeeper has been released to address the vulnerability, and MacKeeper users should update to the latest…
May 7, 2015 • 4 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 readMac OS X Lion (10.7) contains a security issue which can allow non-root users access to the password hashes as well as ability to change the password without authenticating the current password. Read more at “Defence in Depth” including full details, scenarios and temporary fixes.
August 19, 2011 • 1 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 readPosted: May 2nd, 2011 Security Risk: Low RELATED: MAC Defender Security Bulletin & Removal Instructions PDF: https://www.securemac.com/pdf/macdefender.pdf As noted in our security advisory at https://www.securemac.com/MAC-Defender-Rouge-Anti-Virus-Analysis-Removal.php there is a new piece of malware in the wild that is targeting computers running OS X. The following is…
May 2, 2011 • 5 min readSecureMac Security Bulletin Due to the easy removal of the currently identified variant of this malware, SecureMac rates this threat as low. This Security Bulletin will be updated if the threat changes. Updated: May 9th, 2011 Updated: May 4th, 2011 Posted: May 2nd, 2011 Security…
May 2, 2011 • 10 min read