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Title: New Malware Underscores the Danger of Assumed Mac Security
Post by: HCK on February 09, 2017, 04:05:14 pm
New Malware Underscores the Danger of Assumed Mac Security

This week researchers found a piece of malware in the wild, built to steal passwords from the macOS keychain. Named "MacDownloader" and posing as, what else, a fake Flash Player update, the new malware was found on the Mac of a human rights advocate and believed to originate from Iran. The malware's code is very sloppy […]

Source: New Malware Underscores the Danger of Assumed Mac Security (https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/new-malware-underscores-the-danger-of-assumed-mac-security/)