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Multi-platform Backdoor with Intel OS X Binary

14

Jul

2012

Karmina wrote about a malware targeting multiple operating systems on Monday. The Mac OS X sample that time was a PowerPC binary. Yesterday, we received an Intel x86 version in our backend systems which appears to have been used in a similar type of attack. Nothing fancy. This time the sample uses the server 199.180.197.59, […]

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New Trojan for Mac OS X

02

Jul

2012

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about a new Trojan horse for Mac OS X. This application can perform backdoor tasks and execute commands issued by a remote, hacker-controlled server. Back in late June, Doctor Web’s anti-virus laboratory received a sample e-mail message with a malicious program attached targeting Mac OS X. This […]

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An interesting case of Mac OSX malware

01

May

2012

In June 2009, Microsoft issued security update MS09-027, which fixed a remote code execution vulnerability in the Mac version of Microsoft Office. Despite the availability of the bulletin (and the passage of time), not every machine is up to date yet – which is how nearly three years later, malware has emerged that exploits the […]

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