Posts Tagged ‘windows systems’

Mac Attackers Remain Focused Mainly on Adware, Fooling Users

Dec

2020

The year 2020 kicked off with reports that Mac cyber threats had taken off, with machines encountering twice as many threats as Windows systems. But as the year came to a close, the average user of the Mac OS continued to see fewer malware and ransomware threats than Windows users, security experts say. In February […]

Category Threats & Malware Vulnerabilities Written by Darkreading 0 Comments

Not the Mobile Antivirus You Were Looking For

Jun

2013

While browsing Malaysiakini (a popular Malaysian website) on an Android phone, one of our analysts spotted this advertisement: Clicking on the ad led to an external site displaying the following: Looks reminiscent of the kind of text we’ve seen for years on webpages pushing rogues for Windows systems (and sometimes Mac). Clicking on the “Download […]

Category General Written by F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog 0 Comments

Phishing Threat Uses UTF-8 BOM in ZIP Signature to Evade Detection

Apr

2013

Last week, we noticed thousands of malware files in the wild that employ a simple phishing attack by modifying the hosts file on Windows systems. What’s interesting, however, is the technique chosen by the malware authors to distribute their payload. The samples in question (Example MD5: 34d9b42bfd64c6f752fe27eef8d80c5f) are packaged in a ZIP file along with […]

Category General Written by Blog Central > McAfee Labs 0 Comments

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