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Skype trojan turns your computer into a Bitcoin miner

Brian Sin — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:39:33 +0000

There is a Skype trojan going around that is turning PCs into Bitcoin miners. So far, victims are mostly located in countries like Italy, Russia, Poland, Costa Rica, Spain, Germany, and a few others. Bitcoin Mining is a another way for users to acquire Bitcoin’s currency by “making computer hardware do mathematical calculations for the

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New Mac trojan injects ads into web browsers using plugin

Craig Lloyd — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:23:27 +0000

Viruses, trojans, and other malicious pieces of software are nothing new on OS X. While the mainstream consensus is that Apple‘s desktop platform is impervious to such malware, that’s actually not the case. In fact, a new piece of adware is making the rounds that injects advertisements into web browsers after installing a disguised plugin.

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Skype users stalked by ransom trojan

Chris Davies — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:20:26 +0000

Skype has warned users to update to the latest version of the VoIP and video calling app, as well as to check their computer security settings, after a fast-spreading worm was spotted targeting the software. The worm, “Dorkbot,” is being distributed via masked links sent out via Skype’s instant messaging system, Trend Micro reports, co-opting the PC

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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: August 17, 2012

Eric Abent — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:10:23 +0000

Friday has come and gone, which means that the weekend is here once again. The latest iPhone 5 rumors have propelled Apple’s stock to its highest point ever, and it turns out the company’s funds will go toward helping tap a recently-discovered underground river in Crook County, Oregon. Earlier today we saw a picture of

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New Trojan ‘Shamoon’ leaves PCs unbootable

Eric Abent — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:52:05 +0000

We’re getting news of a particularly nasty Trojan targeting Windows-based PC today, which anti-virus companies have dubbed “Shamoon.” Like most malware, Shamoon exists to steal data from computers connected to the Internet, but what it does afterward is quite evil. In an effort to cover its tracks, it begins deleting files, including the Master Boot

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Kaspersky Lab exec calls OS X “really vulnerable”

Ben Kersey — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:46:06 +0000

Malware has increasingly become a problem for Mac OS X, most recently having been affected by the Flashback trojan which infected over half a million systems. Apple were slow to respond to the threat, and although two Flashback removal tools were offered for users to download, the number of machines still infected remains high. Apple

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One in five Macs likely to carry Windows malware

Ben Kersey — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:55:51 +0000

A new study performed by security firm Sophos has found that one in five Macs is likely to carry some sort of Windows malware, but only one in 36 could be infected with malware specifically designed to target Mac OS X. The numbers come after Sophos collected data from around 100,000 Macs that have the

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Flashback Trojan infection still going strong

Rue Liu — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:34:35 +0000

Despite various tools released by antivirus companies and a fix released by Apple itself over a week ago, the number of computers infected with the Flashback Trojan is still high. According to Russian security firm Dr. Web, there were at least 566,000 Macs still infected late last week, which is considerably higher than the number

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Flashback Trojan infection down, but more Mac malware on the way

Rue Liu — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:59:18 +0000

The number of Macs infected by the Flashback, or Flashfake, Trojan has gone down since the initial estimate of 650,000, but more malware targeting Mac users are on their way, says security researchers at Kaspersky Labs, who recently identified other SabPub variants that can be used for targeted attacks of Mac users. It appears the

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New Mac Trojans discovered, exploits Word

Rue Liu — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:31:22 +0000

The pristine image of Macs was shattered recently by the Flashback Trojan that had infected 650,000 machines and now researchers have discovered two other variants of the Trojan that could potentially infect even more Mac computers. One is a variant of the Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a, or simply SabPub, that also exploits a Java vulnerability, while the other

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Kaspersky offers Mac Flashback trojan removal tool

Rue Liu — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:13:08 +0000

Apple computers have recently been hit by the Mac Flashback trojan, the first attack on Macs that does not require any social engineering or phishing schemes. Kaspersky confirmed that the Flashback, or what it calls the Flashfake, botnet has infected 670,000 computers worldwide and the security firm is now releasing a free detection and removal

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Apple makes second attempt at Trojan Java block

Chris Davies — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:51:40 +0000

Apple has released a second Java update as it attempts to block the Flashback trojan threatening Mac users. The second version, spotted by security firm Intego, is listed as “Java for OS X 2012-002″ – its predecessor, pushed out earlier this week, was 2012-001 – and is only for OS X Lion 10.7 machines, rather than for

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Mac Flashback trojan manual clean-up detailed

Chris Davies — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:53:30 +0000

Detailed instructions on how to figure out if your Mac is one of the 600,000+ to have been infected by the Flashback trojan have been released, allowing cautious users to check their systems. The guide, published by security firm F-Secure, details not only how to identify a compromised machine, but how to remove manually remove

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Flashback trojan captures over half a million Macs

Shane McGlaun — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:54:15 +0000

For a long time Macs were pretty much left alone when it came to viruses and Trojans. Thanks to the booming popularity of Mac computers, that isn’t the case anymore with more and more attacks coming that are aimed directly at OS X users. One of the latest bits of nefarious software aimed at Mac

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