Researchers on Wednesday confirmed that an OS X variant of a recently discovered family of cross-platform backdoors exists. Stefan Ortloff, a researcher with Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team, identified the family of backdoors called Mokes in January, but it wasn’t until Tuesday that an OS X variant was discovered. Ortloff wrote a technical breakdown of the...

Researchers have linked a variant of the Pirrit adware for Mac OS X to an Israeli online marketing company called TargetingEdge that is still in stealth mode. Amit Serper, lead Linux and Mac OS X researcher at Cybereason, said that script he wrote to remove the original version of Pirrit from compromised machines had recently...

A unique scareware campaign targeting Mac OS X machines has been discovered, and it’s likely the developer behind the malware has been at it a while since the installer that drops the scareware is signed with a legitimate Apple developer certificate. “Sadly, this particular developer certificate (assigned to a Maksim Noskov) has been used for...

Mac malware is a thing. It’s real. Granted it hasn’t reached the critical mass of malicious code for Windows, but recent encounters with WireLurker, XcodeGhost and YiSpecter among others have elevated the conversation to levels where it’s been legitimized. Adding further credence, Google-owned online malware scanner VirusTotal this week announced the availability of sandbox execution...