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On “FBI” “Ransomware” and Macs

19

Jul

2013

On Monday, Malwarebytes researcher Jerome Segura posted a nice write up (and video) about FBI themed ransom scams targeting users of Apple Mac OS X. The basics are as such: • Segura discovered the scam via a Bing Images search for Taylor Swift. • A compromised site hosting the image linked to a webpage mimicking police ransomware. • Only it […]

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Updates on OSX/Tsunami.A, a Mac OS X Trojan

27

Oct

2011

Yesterday, ESET announced the discovery of a new threat against the Apple Mac OS X platform. Today, we have found a new version of the same threat. The new version is similar to the previous version with two important differences. The first addition to this threat is that it now implements persistence on an infected […]

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New Apple OS X Malware: Fake Adobe Flash Installer

28

Sep

2011

A new attack against Apple Mac OS X Lion (10.7) has been detected by Intego. The threat is a trojan, dubbed Flashback, installed via a fake Adobe Flash installer downloaded from a third party site. As with the MacDefender and Revir malware the Flashback attack uses social engineering to entice the user to download then install […]

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