Archive for the 'Apple Mac OS X' Category

28 Aug

Snow Leopard’s malware protection only scans for two Trojans

The much hyped built-in malware protection into Apple’s Snow Leopard upgrade appears to be nothing more than a XProtect.plist file containing five signatures for two of the most popular Mac OS X trojans – OSX.RSPlug and OSX.Iservice. Intego, the company that originally reported the new feature, has…

11 Aug

New Mac OS X DNS changer spreads through social engineering

TrendMicro is reporting on a newly discovered 4th member of the OSX_JAHLAV malware family. The latest variant is once again relying on social engineering, this time spreading under a QuickTime Player update (QuickTimeUpdate.dmg) with a DNS changer component enabling the malware authors to redirect and monitor the…

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