New OS X Malware: Another Tibet Variant Found
Things have been relatively quiet lately from the authors of the Tibet family of malware, but another variant was...
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Cross-Platform Adware Poses as Flash Player Update
Once again, fraudulent developers are attempting to fool people into installing their adware by signing their file—which pretends to...
Details of Malicious iOS Charger Presented at Black Hat Conference
Every year the Black Hat security conference promises spectacular headlines of the ways hackers can use to make our...
New Mac Malware Janicab Uses Old Trick To Hide
A new threat has been discovered on VirusTotal which affects OS X, acting as spyware on affected systems. It...
How Malware is Researched – Part 2
There are lots of useful ways of looking at a file to determine whether it’s malware, and if it...
Another Sketchy Genieo Installer Discovered
You may recall, about a month ago Genieo had posted sketchy adware installers that were posing as fake Flash...
Another Problematic Softonic Installer Brings Adware
You may recall that Softonic recently drew much ire for a short-lived but troubling installation package that surreptitiously delivered...
Yet Another FileSteal Variant Found Today
As we predicted in our previous post on OSX/Filesteal, a new sample of FileSteal has been found. It was...
Two New Variants of Backdoor Trojan Found Targeting Activists
Two new variants of a backdoor trojan named OSX/FileSteal have been found to be targeting activists via targeted email....
How is Malware Researched?
You may wonder what goes on behind the scenes between the time when researchers get malware samples and the...