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July 9: Doomsday for Your PC or Mac If It Has This Malware

July 9: Doomsday for Your PC or Mac If It Has This Malware | Apple, Mac, MacOS, iOS4, iPad, iPhone and (in)security... | Scoop.it
A trojan that hijacks how your computer accesses the Internet could cut off thousands of machines this summer.

 

There’s a trojan out there that tricks computers — both PCs and Macs — into redirecting all their Internet traffic through malicious servers. Even though the trojan’s creators have been stopped and arrested, millions of PCs could still be infected.

 

===> For those machines, the Internet will cease to exist on July 9. <===

 

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New Mac OS X malware variant spotted in the wild

New Mac OS X malware variant spotted in the wild | Apple, Mac, MacOS, iOS4, iPad, iPhone and (in)security... | Scoop.it
Security researchers from Intego, have intercepted a new variant of the Imuler trojan horse targeting Mac OS X users.
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New OS X malware variant attacks unpatched Macs | ZDNet

New OS X malware variant attacks unpatched Macs | ZDNet | Apple, Mac, MacOS, iOS4, iPad, iPhone and (in)security... | Scoop.it

A new malware variant sets out to punish those who haven’t been keeping up to date with updates.

 

Patching OS X is so simple, but yet there are people who still put it off. A new malware variant sets out to punish those who haven’t been keeping up to date with updates.

 

The new variant is a Trojan horse called ‘Flashback.G’ and is makes use of two exploits found on older versions of the Java runtime. Users with macs running OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ are particularly at risk since this version came with Java preinstalled while 10.7 ‘Lion’ did not.

 

According to security firm Intego, this malware uses three tricks to try to get itself installed onto a system: read more...

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Neue Trojaner infiltrieren Macs mit alten Tricks

Neue Trojaner infiltrieren Macs mit alten Tricks | Apple, Mac, MacOS, iOS4, iPad, iPhone and (in)security... | Scoop.it
Derzeit befinden sich mehrere Trojaner im Umlauf, die gezielt Macs infiltrieren und dafür auf Mechanismen setzen, die seit Jahren auch in Windows-Systemen genutzt werden.
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Mac OS X sous la menace d’un dangereux cheval de Troie

Mac OS X sous la menace d’un dangereux cheval de Troie | Apple, Mac, MacOS, iOS4, iPad, iPhone and (in)security... | Scoop.it

Mac OS X sous la menace d’un dangereux cheval de Troie


Flashback revient en version ‘G’, et il pourrait faire mal car ===> il n’a besoin de personne pour s’installer sur votre machine, puis s’emparer de vos identifiants et mots de passe. <===

 

Cette information est l’occasion de rappeler que le Mac d’Apple est aussi la cible des hackers mafieux et que la réputation sécuritaire de l’Unix embarqué comme OS du Mac ne le met pas à l’abri des menaces, alors que nombre d’utilisateurs des produits de la pomme continuent d’affirmer que le système suffit à les protéger.

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