Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:43:49 +0000
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| A researcher discovered a way to gain control of both webcams and any open session in Safari. How did they do it? Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Tags: ApplemacOSpopupsafariURIurlUXSS |
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:09:53 +0000
That infamous “supercookie” bug in Safari has now been fixed. Oh, and there was a zero-day kernel hole as well.
Read moreCredit to Author: Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 17:00:00 +0000
Our discovery and analysis of a sophisticated Mac trojan in October exposed a year-long evolution of a malware family—and depicts the rising complexity of threats across platforms.
The post The evolution of a Mac trojan: UpdateAgent’s progression appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
Read moreCredit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:34:48 +0000
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| Adware and PUPs can actually be far more invasive and dangerous on the Mac than “real” malware. We demonstrate with analysis of Crossrider, a sophisticated Mac adware that uses evasion and persistence techniques more complex than nation-state malware. Categories: Tags: adwarebundlorecrossridermacMac adwaremac threatsmacOSmacspotentially unwanted programsPUPssurfbuyer |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:01:00 +0000
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| The 2020 State of Malware Report reveals how cybercriminals upped the ante on businesses, Mac threats outpaced PCs, and ransomware continued its targeted, deadly assault with new families in 2019. Learn all this and more in the full report, linked in our blog. Categories: Tags: 2020 state of malware reportadwareAndroidandroid malwareData privacyemotethacktoolsiOSmacmacOSransomwareryukSodinokibiState of Malwarestate of malware reporttrickbotTrojansweb threatswindows |
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:39:26 +0000
Get them now before the crooks figure out what to do with the holes.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Z9hUCBoA6tw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 12:31:50 +0000
Researchers have discovered a flaw in macOS, Linux, and several other operating systems that could let attackers hijack VPN connections.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/L7I8CdL_Udk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 13:18:09 +0000
The Lazarus hacking group are trying to sneak a ‘fileless’ Trojan on to Apple computers, disguised as a fake cryptocurrency trading program.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GN789RKuVrQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:02:06 +0000
Apple may care about your privacy but that doesn’t mean it gets it right all the time, especially when it comes to training its Siri AI assistant.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/TwQGoS3CLXs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 06:20:00 -0800
People are finally waking up to the importance of privacy and the risk of entities over whom we have no control hoovering up the details of our digital lives, and that’s why the latest news from Duck Duck Go is so worthwhile.
We know Apple is working to protect privacy – its newly updated privacy website shares a huge amount of information on its efforts, while the newly-published Safari white paper confirms the browser’s privacy protections include (among other things):