As OS X becomes increasingly popular, it’s only natural that it becomes a bigger target for hackers, scammers and advertisers. We’re seeing a rise in complaints about adware programs built for OS X, ...
A new family of Mac adware is bound to cause some headaches to infected victims, as the only way to remove it and its secondary payloads is by reinstalling macOS from scratch, according to the expert ...
If you have the Adware Doctor app installed on your Mac, you should uninstall it ASAP. Despite ranking as the top paid utility app in the Mac App Store, Adware Doctor is actually spyware that secretly ...
The year 2020 kicked off with reports that Mac cyber threats had taken off, with machines encountering twice as many threats as Windows systems. But as the year came to a close, the average user of ...
You’ve got a Mac and, from what you’ve heard, there’s no evil that can touch you. No viruses. A Mac App Store with guaranteed clean applications. No worries ...
In addition to various viruses that can harm your Mac, there’s a different kind of annoyance you might have stumbled upon: adware. This might manifest itself as a web page that tells you you’ve been ...
The latest version of a Mac Trojan called UpdateAgent, aka WizardUpdate, provides fresh evidence of the growing effort that some threat actors are putting into targeting Apple technologies. The ...
The number one top-selling paid Utilities app on the Mac App Store in the United States has been found to steal the browser history of anyone who downloads it, and is still on the App Store as of this ...
The maker of a sneaky adware that hijacks a user's browser to serve ads is back with a new, more advanced version -- one that can gain root privileges and spy on the user's activities. News of the ...
Computer security is science, yet it sure seems to traffic in enough beliefs to make it seem like a collection of warring cults. And no matter which infosec church you’re most swayed by, you’re ...
A new adware program silently installs on Mac OS X systems and opens Web browser windows, according to F-Secure. The program, dubbed iAdware by the Finnish security company, is possibly the first ...
Antivirus software developer Malwarebytes today shared its 2021 State of Malware Report, which found that malware threat detections on Macs fell a total of 38 percent in 2020. In 2019 Malwarebytes ...