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On “FBI” “Ransomware” and Macs

19

Jul

2013

On Monday, Malwarebytes researcher Jerome Segura posted a nice write up (and video) about FBI themed ransom scams targeting users of Apple Mac OS X. The basics are as such: • Segura discovered the scam via a Bing Images search for Taylor Swift. • A compromised site hosting the image linked to a webpage mimicking police ransomware. • Only it […]

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Mac Spyware: OSX/KitM (Kumar in the Mac)

22

May

2013

There’s another case of Backdoor:OSX/KitM.A in the wild. A German-based investigator reached out to us yesterday regarding OSX/KitM. (We wrote about it last week.) KitM stands for “Kumar in the Mac”, which is our designation for spyware — related to OSX/Filesteal a.k.a. OSX/HackBack — that is signed using an Apple Developer ID in the name […]

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Three Lessons from the South Korea MBR Wiper Attacks

02

Apr

2013

Last week, we posted some detailed information about the actions that the March 20, 2013 MBR wiper attacks took against systems in South Korea.Today, I’d like to take that and some additional information that has come out about the incident and draw some conclusions about what lessons this attack teaches us.When we look at the […]

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