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The recent emergence of rogue security software applications for Mac demonstrates how cybercriminals effectively use social engineering techniques to manipulate users’ responses – specifically, exploiting user’s fear of revealing sensitive information such as credit card details. This scare tactic evidently works regardless of the platform.  While financial gain is primarily the motivation that drives elaborate […]

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We’ve noticed a few odd rogue security software applications recently—although this type of threat is nothing new, these samples are interesting because they target the Mac OS X operating system. There have been several variants of a threat, which we detect as Rogue:MacOS_X/FakeMacdef, going around this month. As you would expect with any rogue antimalware […]

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