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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.

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Billion-dollar search engine industry attracts vultures, shady advertisers, and cybercriminals

January 6, 2020 0 Comments adfraud, advertisements, adware, extensions, hijackers, potentially unwanted programs, PUPs, results, search, search engine, search engine optimization, search engines, seo, seo poisoning, sponsored

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:04:21 +0000

We look at the ways in which criminals and vultures use less-than-honest tactics to fleece the search engine industry for a piece of its billion-dollar pie.

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Mac threat detections on the rise in 2019

December 16, 2019 0 Comments browser extensions, mac, mac adware, mac malware, mac telemetry, mac threat detections, mac threats, newtab, potentially unwanted programs, PUPs, Safari

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:40:06 +0000

For the first time ever, Mac threats broke into Malwarebytes’ top five overall detections of 2019. Take a look at this and other telemetry that shows Mac malware is certainly on the rise.

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