Apr 16, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
By Jeff Gamet Mac users are facing a new malware threat called LuckyCat, fresh on the tail of Flashback. This new trojan targets a security flaw in Microsoft Word to spread its malware payload via Java exploits. Costin Raiu from Kaspersky Lab said in a SecureList blog...
Apr 16, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
By Ryan Faas While the number of Macs infected by the Flashback malware is seemingly in decline now, the security reverberations for Apple continue. The discovery of the botnet a couple of weeks ago — and Apple’s response — has prompted criticism by...
Apr 15, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans
Security software vendor Sophos and game maker Rovio warn about a Trojan horse pretending to be the popular Angry Birds Space game. Malware authors are using the popularity of the Angry Birds series of games as a way to infect the smartphones of users who download the...
Apr 15, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
By Ed Bott In its ongoing battle to clean up the Flashback malware mess, Apple has now released a standalone removal tool. The downloadable utility is available exclusively for Mac owners running OS X Lion. It will not run on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or earlier...
Apr 10, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
Apple has released a second update for Java to patch the vulnerability that allows the Flashback malware access to MacOS machines. This Java release is specifically targeted to MacOS-X Lion and shows as Java for OS X Lion 2012-002. Some of the Macintosh community have...
