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Mac malware is still a rare occurrence, so it’s no wonder that some of it can lurk, unnoticed for months, on random machines. The latest example falls more in the category of “potentially unwanted...

Mughthesec, a variant of the OperatorMac adware, has been turning hijacked Macs into revenue-generating machines for the authors.

The latest round of documents published by WikiLeaks as part of a leak dubbed by the organization “Vault 7” describes several tools allegedly used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to...

Patrick Wardle of Synack Digs Into the Mysterious MalwareIt has been a fairly slow year for Mac malware. But a former NSA researcher has dug into the first Mac malware sample that was detected...

Researchers at security firm Volexity noticed that the website of a media organization based in the country of Georgia had been serving a new version of an old Mac Trojan to specific visitors. read more

Yes, even Mac could also get viruses that could silently spy on its users. So, if you own a Mac and think you are immune to malware, you are wrong. An unusual piece of malware that can remotely...

Surveillance malware dubbed Firefly was easy to spot but flew under the radar anyway.

The cybercriminals behind the campaign known as Operation Emmental have apparently started targeting the customers of Swiss banks using a variant of the Mac OS X malware tracked as Dok. read more

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: End-to-end email encryption with no central point of attack A seamless, easy-to-use, and secure end-to-end encrypted...

A new, free macOS-based ransomware as a service has surfaced on the darkweb. Researchers say once the malware encrypts users' files, they're "pretty much gone for good."