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A group of hackers known for past cyberespionage attacks against the U.S. Defense Industrial Base, as well as companies from the electronics and engineering sectors, has recently started using a backdoor program to target Mac OS X systems. “The backdoor code was ported to OS X from a Windows backdoor that has been used extensively […]

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October 2011 was marked by the increased activity of cyber fraudsters employing phishing and other social-engineering tricks in their schemes. Criminals targeted social network users and customers of Russian hosting providers. Other important events include the discovery of a new backdoor program that enabled intruders to control infected computers remotely.VKontakte users under attackFraudsters are adapting […]

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Doctor Web-the leading Russian developer of anti-virus software -informs users that its virus analysts have discovered a new threat to computers running Mac OS X. BackDoor.Olyx is the second known backdoor for the operating system. If a machine is compromised by the malware, attackers get an opportunity to covertly control the computer. The backdoor receives […]

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