Apple iOS Malware Growth Outpaces that of Android
Number of iOS devices running malicious apps more than tripled in three consecutive quarters, while infected Android devices remained largely flat, report shows. iPhones and other devices running Apple’s iOS have seen a jump in malicious apps attacking them while Android malware infections have remained largely stable, according to a report released today by mobile…
Apple Builds Data Center in China, Promises No Backdoors
Apple on Wednesday announced the establishment of its first China-based data center in an effort to improve its services in the region and comply with recently implemented regulations, but the tech giant has promised not to build any backdoors into its systems. The new data center is located in China’s Guizhou province, which Apple selected…
Apple issues security updates for macOS, iDevices
It’s time to patch your Mac, iDevices and software again: Apple has released security updates for MacOS (all the way back to Yosemite), iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iTunes, iCloud for Windows, and Safari. The iTunes and iCloud for Windows updates fix one vulnerability in WebKit each. But both of these are critical, as they can be…
Apple Mac OS Malware Spiked in Q4
Malware samples sharply increased for Mac OS devices in Q4 2016 as threat actors expand their targets outside Windows PCs, new McAfee report says. Mac OS malware increased by 247% in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to a new report by McAfee Labs. The dramatic increase in Apple Mac OS malware samples went from…
Apple: Mac, iPhone Bugs That CIA Allegedly Exploited Were Fixed Years Ago
The Apple desktop and mobile product vulnerabilities that were revealed this week, in a WikiLeaks data dump of documents allegedly describing several secret CIA projects, were all fixed years ago, Apple said Friday. The leaked information on the Apple vulnerabilities is from a larger collection of documents that WikiLeaks has dubbed “Vault 7,” containing hitherto…
Fake FBI mail: “Send us $112 or we’ll lock your iCloud account”
Here’s a scam mail which claims your iCloud has been accessed without permission, and will be locked within 2 hours if you don’t verify the account by sending $112 to a Bitcoin address. The missive claims to be from [email protected] and is titled, “Virus Warning: E-Mail from ‘FBI Alert”.
New Mac backdoor using antiquated code
The first Mac malware of 2017 was brought to my attention by an IT admin, who spotted some strange outgoing network traffic from a particular Mac. This led to the discovery of a piece of malware unlike anything I’ve seen before, which appears to have actually been in existence, undetected, for some time, and which seems to…
Avoiding the Technology Upgrade? Don’t Dodge Security
Consumers love new technology. New iterations of iPhones or brand-specific Androids are embraced by devotees looking to analyze the latest features, dissect any potential flaws and conduct entirely biased comparisons to determine which device is best. Beyond the high-profile advertising that accompanies emerging tech, however, is the underlying software update that typically addresses issues such…
Google Adwords Malvertising Campaign Targets Apple Macs
Apple Mac owners using the Google search engine may have been infected via malicious ads at the tip-top of their search results last week after attackers launched a malvertising campaign against Google Adwords. In an act of gumption or plain cheek, the attackers’ malicious lure of choice was a phony ad for one of Google’s…