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Back in the day, when malware makers capitalized on eroding the PC landscape, the Mac was a godsend for the average security-minded user. Things have changed, though, and so has the status quo in the cybercrime arena. Over the past few years, threats targeting computers with macOS under their hoods have seen a dramatic spike. Here we are now – adware, rogue optimizers, ransomware, and crypto-miners have gone from marginal to commonplace in this once-safe environment. Moreover, some of these culprits are tre
This piece of malicious code shows its sharp fangs by repeatedly redirecting a victim’s web sessions in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox to searchmarquis.com. From there, the traffic wanders through interstitial domains such as searchbaron.com, nearbyme.io, and r.a9g.io until it hits Bing. As odd as it may sound, Microsoft’s search engine has been an element of similar browser manipulation schemes for quite a while. Why? Probably because it works well as a red herring in such chicanery. It smokescreens everythin
Internet threat actors are constantly diversifying their portfolio of attack mechanisms and targets. When it comes to the extortion vector, things no longer boil down to attacking individual computers or enterprise IT networks. In a recent defiant move, a group of hackers have been targeting HPE iLO 4 interfaces. This technology stands for HPE Integrated Lights-Out, a proprietary framework by Hewlett-Packard that allows administrators to access and manage some HP servers remotely. The admin can use their re