There's a new and particularly clever piece of malware in town called WireLurker, and rather unusually it targets iOS and OS X. Even more remarkably, WireLurker is surprisingly virulent, possibly ...

Researchers at Sophos Labs, which first detected Apple's silent upgrade, said that Apple updated its XProtect.plist, a file that contains basic signatures for various Mac threats, specifically to ...

Macs are more protected from malicious software like viruses, Trojans, adware, etc. than Windows and Linux. However, they aren’t immune, and more and more malware is being designed specifically for ...

Dubbed "OSX/Leap.a" by McAfee, Sophos, and Symantec, the malware spreads using the Mac's built-in iChat instant messaging service, where it arrives as an IM file transfer. If the recipient opens the ...

Despite common consensus and Apple’s own “Get a Mac” ad campaign propaganda,, Macs certainly aren’t immune to the threats of viruses and malware: they’re just less likely to be infected by them, ...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - July 26, 2012: Just hours before the release of Mountain Lion, the latest version of the OS X operating system*, new malware has been discovered highlighting the need for ...

Instances of Apple OS X malware are soaring this year, already totaling more than five times the number tallied over the previous five years combined, according to an in-house Bit9 + Carbon Black ...

Too funny - this article is supposed to be about Macs getting viruses when in reality it is about folks using woefully out of date MICROSOFT products that create an available attack vector. This is ...

A Mac trojan popped up last month posing as a Flash Player installer, but now that trojan has morphed into a new variant that attempts to disable the automatic updater for Mac OS X's built-in ...

Security researchers have identified multiple samples of the recently discovered “KitM” spyware for Mac OS X, including one dating back to December 2012 and targeting German-speaking users. KitM ...