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Warning: Fake Instagram app on Android is malware
By Emil Protalinski There's a new Trojan on the block that is looking to take advantage of all the hype surrounding Facebook's acquisition of Instagram. Cybercriminals have created fake versions of the Instagram Android app, designed to earn money from unsuspecting...
Flashback Malware Still Affects 140,000 Macs
By Jared Newman, PCWorld Apparently not all Mac users got the memo about Flashback, the malware that recently infected more than 600,000 computers running OS X. According to security firm Symantec, roughly 140,000 Mac computers were still infected as of April 16. "The...
AV Comparatives Participants 2012
AV-Comparatives.org are happy to announce the participants of their annual public test-series of 2012: International participants: AhnLab (NEW), Avast, AVG, AVIRA, Bitdefender, Bullguard (NEW), eScan, ESET, Fortinet (NEW), F-Secure, G DATA, GFI (NEW), Kaspersky,...
Latest Mac Malware Attack Is a Wake-Up Call for OS X Users
By Christina Bonnington Mac users were once relatively insulated from malware attacks, if only because their OS platform didn't attract the attention of criminals. But now a spike in security threats is making it clear that the bad guys are no longer ignoring Apple's...
Fighting the OSX/Flashback Hydra
by Pierre-Marc Bureau Senior Malware Researcher The biggest Mac botnet ever encountered, the OSX/Flashback botnet, is being hit hard. On April 12th, Apple released a third Java update since the Flashback malicious code outbreak. This update includes a new tool called...
Pinterest security update
by Cameron Camp Security Researcher We recently highlighted a security walkthrough on Pinterest.com, the pinboard style sharing website that's taking the social media by storm. Since then, they've continued to grow, and continued to have accompanying growing pains...
Malware Masquerading as Angry Birds Game
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...
LuckyCat Malware Threat Targets Macs through Word
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...
Lessons for IT, Apple in Flashback brouhaha
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 IT security...
Malware Masquerading as Angry Birds Game
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...
Apple releases Flashback malware removal tool, for OS X Lion only
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...
Apple releases second Java update to deal with Flashback malware
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...
Flashback Central: How to Find, Protect Against, and Eliminate Scary Apple Malware
By David Murphy It's been quite a week for Mac owners. And that's all thanks to Flashback, a drive-by-download attack that requires absolutely no input by users in order to install itself on one's Apple system. Visit a malicious website and that's it: The code...
A blast from the past – and something that no longer holds true…
Apple's claims to be virus free are a thing of the past... The no-so-new FlashBack trojan with a botnet of 600,000+ macs doing it's bidding has well and truly ended the Apple claim that viruses are a "PC thing". More details on FlashBack If you run ANY macintosh...
How long did Apple know about Flashback? Why did it take so long to patch MacOS-X?
Have you read about the 600,000 strong MacOS-X botnet? Were you aware that a simple Java exploit was the cause? Further - were you aware that at LEAST since September of 2011 - that Apple knew of the flashback threat - and yet the Java distribution for Macos-X which...
More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet
Russian antivirus company says half the computers infected with malware designed to steal personal information are in the U.S. - with 274 located in Cupertino. More than half a million Macs are infected with the Flashback Trojan, a malware package designed to steal...
Mobile Malware: Beware Drive-by Downloads on Your Smartphone
By Meridith Levinson While Jeff Schmidt, the CEO of JAS Global Advisors, was surfing the Web on his new Android smartphone (his first Android phone) earlier this year, what appeared to be an ad popped up on his screen. The "ad" looked like the prompt that appears when...
Chrome extensions malware hijacks Facebook profiles
By Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor Kaspersky Lab has found malware-laden Chrome extensions, along with a criminal gang playing cat and mouse with Google by releasing several variations of its wares. The attacks manifest as suggestions to download Facebook apps. Those apps...
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