Friday, February 1st: Twitter announced it was hacked. The post (Keeping our users secure) by Bob Lord, Director of Information Security, was sparse on details but recommended disabling Java’s browser plugin. And according to Lord, the attackers “were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked.” Friday, February […]
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 […]
Mac lovers, hold onto your machines-it’s going to be a bumpy ride after yet another Mac Trojan was found on the security threatscape, once again wreaking havoc on the once typically sheltered Mac OS X users.Moscow-based antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab warned users in a blog post that the new Mac threat, dubbed Backdoor OSX SabPub.a, […]
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