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Fake anti-viruses for MAC, new 64-bit rootkits, and other “surprises” of May

09

Jun

2011

The emergence of the fake anti-virus best known as MacDefender may be considered the most important cyber-threat event in May. While fake anti-viruses for Windows have become commonplace, counterfeit anti-malware for Mac OS X is still a novelty, especially when on the scale of an epidemic. Yet the discovery of rootkits targeting 64-bit Windows systems […]

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Apple releases update to protect against MacDefender

01

Jun

2011

Apple has released security update 2011-003 to address the recent increase in malware targeting Mac OS X. It updates the included XProtect program to detect scareware variants we have seen attacking Mac users, including MacDefender, Mac Guard and Mac Security. It seems to still have the restriction of only working through the LSQuarantine library. Once […]

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Trend Micro Researchers Identify Vulnerability in Hotmail

24

May

2011

A couple of days ago, my colleagues reported an attack that appears to be targeted and that involves email messages sent through a Webmail service. Upon further investigation, we were able to confirm that this attack exploits a previously unpatched vulnerability in Hotmail. Trend Micro detects the malicious email messages as HTML_AGENT.SMJ. The said attack […]

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