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First fake-installer Trojan for Mac OS

12

Dec

2012

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web informs users about a new Trojan for Mac OS X dubbed Trojan.SMSSend.3666. The malicious scheme used to spread this Trojan is notorious among many Windows users but until now it hasn’t been employed to deceive owners of Macs. Trojan.SMSSend is a fake installer which can be downloaded from various sites […]

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New Mac Malware Found on Dalai Lama Related Website

03

Dec

2012

Acting on a tip, a member of our Threat Research team (Brod) has discovered a Dalai Lama related website is compromised and is pushing new Mac malware, called Dockster, using a Java-based exploit.Page source from gyalwarinpoche.com:Here’s a screenshot of gyalwarinpoche.com from Google’s cache:Note: Google’s November 27th snapshot also includes a link to the malicious exploit […]

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Romanian Google, Yahoo Users Redirected to Defacement Page

28

Nov

2012

Earlier today, visitors of web pages associated with Google and Yahoo search were instead being redirected to a defacement page. Preliminary investigation reveals that neither Google, nor Yahoo servers have been hacked or otherwise compromised. Instead, the attackers have somehow changed the authoritative DNS records for the affected domains (which are maintained by registrar RoTLD) […]

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