Mac Owners Told ‘Don’t Panic’
Posted by Jason on
April 3, 2008
Security specialists Sophos are doing a fine impression of Dad’s Army’s Corporal Jones with its latest advice to Apple Mac users, which is ‘Don’t Panic’. This follows the discovery of a Trojan horse web popup that targets OS X users, called Troj/MacSwp-B or ‘Imunizator’. Windows PC owners will be familiar with the trick it plays, it purports to be a security program checking for problems, which needless to say it finds, it then tries to frighten Mac users into paying out for bogus software. Read More »
Halloween Brings Hackers in Your Computer
Posted by Jason on
October 31, 2007
Security company Sophos discovered a Halloween spam campaign which attempts to redirect the users to malicious websites ‘equipped’ with dangerous files. The spam messages can be easily identified using their subjects: ‘Happy Halloween’, ‘Dancing Bones’, ‘The most amazing dancing skeleton’, ‘Shows this to the kids’, ‘Send this to your friends’ or ‘Man this rocks’. According to the reports, the messages require the users to visit a malicious website in order to download a dancing skeleton game but instead of saving the Halloween content, they actually get a Trojan horse. The interesting fact is that the infected file gives the attackers the possibility to control the affected computer from any system connected to the Internet. Read More »
