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Serious macOS vulnerability exposes the root user

November 29, 2017 admin apple, cybercrime, High Sierra, Mac Cybercrime, MacOS, macOS vunerability, root user

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:00:02 +0000

A major macOS vulnerability in High Sierra was reported. Anyone can log in as “root” with an empty password. Learn more.

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Mac malware OSX.Proton strikes again

October 20, 2017 admin cybercrime, Mac Cybercrime

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 16:55:38 +0000

The hackers responsible for the Mac malware OSX.Proton have struck again, this time infecting a copy of the Elmedia Player app.

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A new kind of Apple phishing scam

October 11, 2017 admin apple, apple phishing, cybercrime, iOS phishing, Mac Cybercrime, mac malware, mac phishing, phishing

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:15:19 +0000

A new method for phishing Apple ID passwords on iOS would be indistinguishable from a real iOS password request—what are the ramifications?

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Keychain vulnerability in macOS

September 26, 2017 admin apple, cybercrime, High Sierra, Mac, Mac Cybercrime, MacOS, malware, Patreon

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:11:06 +0000

On Monday, Patrick Wardle, a respected security researcher at Synack and owner of Objective-See, sent a tweet about a keychain vulnerability he had found in macOS High Sierra. As his tweet showed, it is possible for a malicious app to extract, and then exfiltrate, keychain data from High Sierra, with passwords clearly exposed in plain text.

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iCloud support scams

April 25, 2017 admin apple, Apple ID, celebgate, cybercrime, icloud, iCloud ID, iOS App Store, iPhone, Mac, Mac App Store, Mac Cybercrime, SCAM, tech support, tech support scam, TSS

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:00:07 +0000

Stay on the lookout for a new iCloud scam. A Malwarebytes employee reported receiving multiple calls claiming to be from Apple Support and asking for her credentials.

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Hackers threaten to wipe Apple devices

March 23, 2017 admin apple, Apple ID, cybercrime, data breach, icloud, iOS, iPhone, Mac Cybercrime, phishing

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:00:40 +0000

According to a report from Motherboard, a group of hackers calling themselves “Turkish Crime Family” is threatening to remotely erase devices belonging to hundreds of millions of Apple customers. They will do this on April 7, they say, if Apple doesn’t pay them a ransom.

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