Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2017
Bad news for Mac users, a new variant of the OSX.Dok dropper was discovered by researchers at Malwarebytes, it was spotted installing a new payload dubbed Bella backdoor. Once the DOK malware infects a macOS system, it gains administrative privileges and installs a new root certificate. The root certificate allows the malicious code to intercept all victimâs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2017
DOK Malware is a stealthy malicious code recently discovered by researchers at security firm CheckPoint, it affects almost ant Mac OS X version. Malware researchers at CheckPoint firm have discovered a new stealth Mac malware dubbed DOKÂ that affects almost ant Mac OS X version. At the time of its discovery, the DOK malware has zero […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2017
Experts from security firm Sixgill have discovered a new strain of the macOS Proton RAT that is offered for sale on Russian cybercrime underground. The Dark Web is the right place where to find any kind of illegal products and services, malware such as banking trojan and spyware are very popular in cyber criminal underground. Recently a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2016
Experts at the SANS Technology Institute spotted an OS X scareware campaign that leverages fake Adobe Flash Player installers. Johannes Ullrich, security expert at the SANS Technology Institute, spotted an OS X scareware campaign that leverages fake Adobe Flash Player installers to trick users into downloading malicious software. The expert discovered the malicious campaign while analyzing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2016
According to data provided by the CVE Details Apple Mac OS X is the software with the highest number of vulnerabilities in 2015. Which is the software with the greatest number of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in 2015? You will be surprised to know that the software with the major number of vulnerabilities is the Apple […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2015
Rafael Salema Marques, a Brazilian researcher, published a PoC about the existence of Mabouia ransomware, the first ransomware that targets MAC OS X. Imagine this scenario: You received a ransom warning on your computer stating that all your personal files had been locked. In order to unlock the files, you would have to pay $500. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2015
Security researchers at MalwareBytes have discovered a new variant of an adware installer that is leveraging an old trick to access the Keychain on MAC OS X In July, researchers at Malwarebytes have identified a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the Mac OS X operating system. The experts discovered that the flaw in OS X was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2015
An Italian security researcher has discovered two zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple MAC OS X that could be exploited to gain remote access to a PC. An Italian teenager, Luca Todesco, has found a couple of critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple OS X operating system that could be exploited to gain remote access to a PC. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2015
Researchers have discovered a critical local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the Mac OS X operating system, but Apple will fix only by October. German researcher Stefan Esser, founder of security audit company SektionEins, has discovered a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the Mac OS X operating system that affects OS X 10.10.x. Esser decided to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2015
DLL hijacking is not a prerogative for Windows systems, it is a common hacking technique that is very effective against OS X based machines. As you may know, DLL hijacking it’s something that its around since around 2000 and allows hackers to exploit a machine with a vulnerable application ( just one of the possibilities […]
