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LoJack for computers used to attack European government bodies

October 4, 2018 admin bootkit, hacking, Lojack, Lojax, UFEI, XAgent

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Security researchers have detected the first known instance of a UEFI bootkit being used against government bodies in Central and Eastern Europe. The attack relies on a persistence mechanism stolen from a legitimate software called Computrace—essentially LoJack for computers—that comes by default on many machines.

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Two new Mac backdoors discovered

March 1, 2017 admin anti-malware, apple, cybercrime, iOS, iPhone, Mac, MacOS, malware, XAgent, XProtect

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 15:00:33 +0000

On Valentine’s Day, Mac users got a special “treat” in the form of new malware. Now, just a week later, there are signs of yet another piece of malware looming. This brings the count of malware (as opposed to adware or other threats) discovered for macOS this year up to 4, in only two short months.

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