MacKeeper is well known antivirus software for Mac OS X is designed to improve Mac performance and security, but it is infamous for its noisy "clean up your Mac" pop-under ads that stress the need for a system cleanup. A vulnerability has been di...
40% of Google Play and iOS App Store Apps are Risky
Online security firm Marble Labs are published a report that indicates more than 40% of “dangerous” apps on Apple and Google’s app stores were made by American developers. Marble Labs found that 42.14 percent of “dangerous” apps come from America...
New Mac OS X botnet discovered
In September 2014, Doctor Web's security experts researched several new threats to Mac OS X. One of them turned out to be a complex multi-purpose backdoor that entered the virus database as Mac.BackDoor.iWorm. Criminals can issue commands tha...
May 2014 virus activity review from Doctor Web
In May 2014, Doctor Web security researchers discovered a record-high (compared to previous months) number of malicious programs for Linux. Also, during the second half of the month. Doctor Web's analysts continued their in-depth study of the co...
Windows, Mac OS, and Linux Machines Targeted by Multi-Platform Botnet
Kaspersky security researchers had lifted the lid on a multi-platform botnet written in Java targeting machines running Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Upda...
New Malware Steals Your Bitcoins from Mac OS X
New Mac malware is monitoring the your web browser to steal your bitcoins, this is discovered by SecureMac on Sunday. The trojan horse named as “OSX/CoinThief.A.” SecureMac, a Mac security consultancy that develops the MacScan anti-malware appli...
Apple iOS Starbucks App Users at Risk
Insecure Data Storage of User Data Elements in Starbucks v2.6.1 iOS mobile application. The problem comes from the way session.clslog, the Crashlytics log file, handles those credentials in the event of a crash. Within session.clslog there are mu...
Trojan threat for Mac OS X
Office based Trojan threat for Mac OS X by Chinese hackersSecurity company ESET watches the newly found Trojan for OS X establish connections and receive commands to steal information. Earlier this month, researchers from AlienVault and Intego repo...
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