SecureMac broke the news of the Boonana Trojan Horse (trojan.osx.boonana.a), a piece of malware which is spreading via social networking sites that is cross platform and affects Mac OS X. Continue reading »
Last week, SecureMac discovered a new trojan horse that affects Mac OS X, including Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), the latest version of OS X. Continue reading »
A non repairable threat attack has continued since Sunday, against all Microsoft Windows operating systems (not DOS) eminating from Ukraine, Russia and Turkey. Trojan comes attached to a phishing spam claiming to be from Western Union. Continue reading »
After April’s rumblings of the iBotNet virus attacking Macs, which got little or no press, those of us on the frontlines knew is was basically a hoax Trojan that infected a very small number of Macs. This week, Bob Levitus wrote for The Chronicle, putting the situation in perspective saying “Virus’ isn’t what you’ve heard it is” Continue reading »
Back in early December 2008, there were a series of articles about Apple posting an article that recommended the use of anti-virus software. This article from that time is on the Trend Micro web site. It is about how Macs can become infected. Continue reading »
On June 19th, SecureMac announced that they had discovered multiple versions of a new Trojan in the wild that affects Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. Continue reading »
For the last week, we’ve been tracking one set of cybercriminals who successfuly elude spam traps and filtering software. It’s NOT a pretty picture, and the hot trail leads straight to Google… Continue reading »
For the past day we’ve had 149 attempts to place links into the ‘comments’ here in UGNN which redirect the user to a download site where a trojan is downloaded. During tracking this criminal, we discovered this security notice published by Intego yesterday… Continue reading »
BEWARE: several weeks ago we warned you about “Postcard” or “eCard” spam, and the dangers it poses for computer users. Several people on the infomanager and AUGD list snickered. Seems both the FBI and FCC now agree… Continue reading »
Storm Worm, Hidden In Phony E-Card Spam, Strikes Again — ALERT: Beware of “Greeting Card” spam. Continue reading »
