Virus Alert for Mac: OSX Dok

Views: 168“A recently discovered strain of Apple Mac malware has begun mimicking major banking websites in an effort to steal login details from victims,” Danny Palmer reports for ZDNet. “First uncovered in May, OSX.Dok affected all versions of Apple’s older OS X operating system and was initially used to spy on victims’ web traffic.” “The […]

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Makers of Handbreak for Mac warn of Trojan horse

Views: 47“HandBrake is an open-source video transcoder that’s available on Mac,” Sean Keach writes for Trusted Reviews. “It’s freely available and very popular, as it allows users to convert video to different formats.” “But that popularity could be about to take a downswing, as the team behind the program are now warning users that they […]

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'iWorm' Malware controls Macs via Reddit, more than 17K affected

Views: 22Security researchers recently discovered that more than 17,000 Macs around the world have been infected by a new OS X malware threat called “iWorm,” which at one point used Reddit.com as a go-between to cull user data, perform various system actions and execute Lua scripts. Entered into the virus database of Russian research firm […]

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