Dec 22, 2014 | ESET CyberSecurity for Macs, Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
For years and years, Apple maintained that an antivirus program was not required and Macintosh – and for many years, if you were careful – is was *largely* true. The amount of Macintosh threats were minimal – and the cybercriminals simply...
Mar 20, 2013 | ESET CyberSecurity for Macs, General Security, Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
According to Dr Web – the number one Mac threat at the moment is Yontoo Trojan Dr Web on Yontoo for Mac Yontoo hijacks web pages with adware and is detected by ESET CyberSecurity for Mac as Trojan software.
Apr 30, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
by Alexis Dorais-Joncas Security Intelligence Team Lead The Flashback trojan has been all over the news lately, but it is not the only Mac malware threat out there at the moment. A few weeks ago, we published a technical analysis of OSX/Lamadai.A, the Mac OS X payload...
Apr 29, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld – Of the Macs that have been infected by the Flashback malware, nearly two-thirds are running OS X 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard, a Russian antivirus company said Friday. Doctor Web, which earlier this month was the first to...
Apr 26, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
Speaking to CBR at the Info Security 2012 conference, Kaspersky founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky said that Apple is years behind Microsoft when it comes to security, and the company will have to change the ways it approaches updates following the recent malware...
Apr 20, 2012 | General Security, Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
By John E Dunn, techworld.com The source of the Apple Mac Flashback Trojan was probably a large clutch of compromised US-based WordPress blog websites hijacked to push visitors to malware hosts, Kaspersky Lab research has revealed. As has previously been established...
