What We Know About Apple’s Malware Breach
The coverage surrounding Apple’s recent malware-related breach has been maddeningly sparse and has led to as much misinformation as...
Tag Archives: Malware
Pint-Sized Backdoor for OS X Discovered
Updated February 19, 2013 to include more information _____ A new backdoor which affects OS X has been announced to...
New Targeted Attack on Tibetan Activists Using OS X Discovered
Once again, another round of targeted attack on Tibetan activists which drops a backdoor trojan has been found (the last...
Ads are a Huge Source of Malicious Content; Java Vulnerabilities Behind 80% of the Exploits
A recent annual report from Cisco highlights something that’s pretty obvious to anyone who’s been paying attention to malware...
Targeted Attacks Require Better Awareness
For folks following InfoSec experts on their various social media outlets, especially in the Twittersphere, there’s been a lot...
New Phish Tries to Evade Researchers
Malware has been employing anti-researcher and detection-evading tactics, almost since the beginning of malicious code. And while phishing and...
Java Programming is On the Decline–Is Mac Malware to Blame?
This last year was not a good one for Java on the Mac. There were a number of malware...
The Latest in Jailbreaking: Will Malware Follow?
Lately there have been a lot of interesting tidbits about jailbreaking in the news, from all sorts of different...
Why Financially Motivated Malware is Destructive
Every now and again I read some article with a mistaken assumption about malware that inspires me to loudly...
Windows Malware is Not Limited to Windows Users
Malware is a bit like mud: if someone throws enough of it at the wall, some of it will...