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It’s not breaking news that fake-alert Trojans infections are growing. But it’s worrying for Mac OS X users to find themselves a target for those attacks. As my colleague Tad Heppner mentioned in his post, a scareware called MacDefender was spotted in the wild. Mac users can be fooled by those fake alerts because malware Read more…
Tags: fake anti virus, Mac OS X, malware
BlackHole RAT is a backdoor Trojan targeting Mac OS X. It’s written in REALbasic and it was first discovered in December 21, 2010. But it was only during the past days that it gained the attention of security experts and the media. This is not the first backdoor Trojan for OS X, and McAfee expects the number of malware for Mac OS X to grow.
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