On October 21st, 2025 with 20 comments
joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: A new malicious campaign is targeting macOS developers with fake Homebrew, LogMeIn, and TradingView platforms...
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On November 1st, 2023 with 33 comments
Richard Speed reports via The Register: Asahi Linux, a project to port Linux to Apple Silicon Macs, has reported a combination of bugs in Apple's macOS that...
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On November 17th, 2022 with 74 comments
joshuark writes: Yikes, gadzooks, and shiver my timbers! Elastic Labs has found surprisingly that 50% of malware comes from one app: MacKeeper, ironically....
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On August 17th, 2022 with 14 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bleeping Computer: North Korean hackers from the Lazarus group have been using a signed malicious executable for macOS...
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On June 7th, 2022 with 175 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A new security feature in Apple's upcoming macOS 13 Ventura will automatically block new USB-C devices...
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On June 29th, 2019 with 53 comments
puddingebola writes: In May, security researcher Filippo Cavallarin made public a vulnerability in macOS's Gatekeeper. The vulnerability can allow an attacker...
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On March 7th, 2019 with 40 comments
Google's bug-hunting researchers known as Project Zero have revealed a fresh zero-day vulnerability in macOS called "BuggyCow." "The attack takes advantage of...
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On December 21st, 2018 with 28 comments
Four months after a mysterious group was outed for a digital espionage operation that used novel techniques to target Mac users, its macOS malware samples...
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On August 24th, 2018 with 100 comments
A North Korea-linked hacking group, dubbed Lazarus, deployed malware for macOS in an effort to infiltrate cryptocurrency exchanges. "In one of the attacks,...
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On January 23rd, 2018 with 39 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Neowin: Apple released its round of bug fix/security updates -- including iOS 11.2.5, macOS 10.13.3 High Sierra,...
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On November 28th, 2017 with 237 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: A trivial-to-exploit flaw in macOS High Sierra, aka macOS 10.13, allows users to gain admin rights, or...
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On June 13th, 2017 with 54 comments
If you are a Mac user, you should be aware of new variants of malware that have been created specifically to target Apple computers; one is ransomware and the...
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On June 2nd, 2017 with 66 comments
Check Point researchers have discovered a massive malware campaign, dubbed Fireball, that has already infected more than 250 million computers across the...
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On December 15th, 2016 with 88 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Swedish hardware hacker Ulf Frisk has created a device that can extract Mac FileVault2 (Apple's disk encryption utility) passwords...
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On June 17th, 2015 with 78 comments
An anonymous reader notes a report from El Reg on a major cross-app resource vulnerability in iOS and Mac OS X. Researchers say it's possible to break app...
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On March 21st, 2015 with 119 comments
abhishekmdb writes No browsers are safe, as proved yesterday at Pwn2Own, but crashing one of them with just one line of special code is slightly different. A...
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On April 29th, 2014 with 178 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a zero-day Adobe Flash vulnerability that affects Windows, OS X, and Linux. 'While...
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On September 6th, 2013 with 170 comments
Calibax writes "Parallels recently released version 9 of Parallels Desktop, their popular hypervisor application for Mac. They also released a new product...
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On February 8th, 2013 with 125 comments
tsamsoniw writes "In the wake of the most recent zero-day attacks exploiting Flash Player, Adobe claims that it's worked hard to make Player secure — and...
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On May 10th, 2012 with 392 comments
Nimey writes "Adobe has posted a security bulletin for Photoshop CS5 for Windows and OSX. It seems there is a critical security hole that will allow attackers...
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On May 26th, 2011 with 374 comments
An anonymous reader writes "The latest versions of the Mac Defender malware attacks no longer require users to enter their admin credentials (username and...
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On October 28th, 2010 with 244 comments
Trailrunner7 writes "On the same day that it plans to release a patch for a critical flaw in Shockwave, Adobe confirmed on Thursday morning that there is a...
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On December 22nd, 2009 with 378 comments
itwbennett writes "Hundreds of Operating Systems were released during the past decade, finding their way into microdevices, watches, refrigerators, mobile...
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On August 25th, 2009 with 335 comments
File this firmly in the "rumor" category for now. the JoshMeister writes (in the third person) "Mac antivirus company Intego broke the story this morning that...
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On January 22nd, 2009 with 431 comments
CWmike writes "Pirated copies of Apple's new iWork '09 suite that are now available on file-sharing sites contain a Trojan horse that hijacks Macs and leaves...
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On December 2nd, 2008 with 484 comments
Barence writes "After years of boasting about the Mac's near invincibility, Apple is now advising its customers to install security software on their...
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On June 18th, 2008 with 359 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Half the Mac OS X boxes in the world (confirmed on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard) can be rooted through AppleScript:...
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On June 3rd, 2008 with 61 comments
Wormfan writes to share ZDNet's brief mention of and a link to "Apple's release of a ~250 page PDF of security best-practices and tips to protect Mac OS X...
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On November 15th, 2007 with 264 comments
4 for 52 writes "ZDNet is reporting that Apple has fessed up to at least three serious design weaknesses in the new application-based firewall that ships with...
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On November 5th, 2007 with 603 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Leopard's Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume...
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