Tag: Awareness - Latest Releases

Dec 20, 2011 - The Yorkshire Air Ambulance have launched an official iPhone App to enable supporters to keep even more up to date with the latest news and activity from the life-saving Charity. Features of the App include a mission tracker, which offers exclusive information about where both the YAA helicopters have flown each week across the region. Gain access to the latest facts, figures and information from the Charity which can then be shared with others through supporters own Facebook and Twitter pages.

May 11, 2011 - MAC Defender is a rouge anti-virus program for Mac OS X being distributed via the web that will "detect" nonexistent threats as being present on the user's system in an effort to persuade them to hand over their credit card information and purchase a "subscription" to the program. If the user does not purchase, the program will start popping up pornographic websites to create an actual problem on the system. SecureMac offers full analysis and removal instructions.

May 03, 2011 - MAC Defender is a rouge anti-virus program for Mac OS X being distributed via the web that will "detect" nonexistent threats as being present on the user's system in an effort to persuade them to hand over their credit card information and purchase a "subscription" to the program. If the user does not purchase, the program will start popping up pornographic websites to create an actual problem on the system. SecureMac offers full analysis and removal instructions.

Apr 09, 2011 - The SecureMac team has announced a new version of the BlackHole RAT 2.0 Trojan Horse for Mac OS X has been discovered. The new version of the trojan horse adds itself as a login item disguised as Java, has a more believable prompt for username and password. It slows down the computer by tying up the CPU with a loop function, executes shell commands, and can attempt to erase the hard drive. This new version should be not confused with an older variant from back in February.

Apr 01, 2011 - The SecureMac team today announced a new version of the BlackHole RAT 2.0 Trojan Horse for Mac OS X has been discovered. The new version of the trojan horse adds itself as a login item disguised as Java, has a more believable prompt for username and password. It slows down the computer by tying up the CPU with a loop function, executes shell commands, and can attempt to erase the hard drive. This new version should be not confused with an older variant from back in February.

Nov 04, 2010 - The SecureMac team today announced a new variant of the Boonana malware has been discovered. The new variant, trojan.osx.boonana.b, behaves in a very similar manner to the original malware, and is currently being distributed on multiple sites. SecureMac has identified two more websites that are currently hosting the new malware variant. Rather than the initial site which tricks users into running (and installing) the malware, these servers seem to be hosting update code for the malware.

Oct 28, 2010 - The SecureMac team today released an initial analysis of the Mac OS X Boonana Trojan Horse and has created a free removal tool as well as administrative instructions to manually remove the affected machines. Due to the fact that the Command and Control servers for the malware are still active, we maintain a threat level rating of critical for trojan.osx.boonana.a. Detailed procedures and instructions are also listed in the report.

Oct 27, 2010 - SecureMac has discovered a new trojan horse in the wild that affects Mac OS X, including Snow Leopard, the latest version of OS X. The trojan horse, trojan.osx.boonana.a, is spreading through social networking sites, including Facebook, disguised as a video. The trojan is currently appearing as a link in messages on social networking sites with the subject "Is this you in this video?" When run, the installer modifies system files to bypass the need for passwords.

Sep 20, 2010 - In honor of pirate day and in preparation for October's security awareness month, SecureMac will be offering MacScan for free for one day only, September 20th 2010. Apple Mac Users can participate in this offer by going to the MacScan website and downloading the free trial of MacScan. MacScan quickly detects, isolates and removes malware from Macintosh computers using both real-time spyware definition updating and unique detection methods.