Panda Software warned earlier this week that hackers are using the player's DRM tool to fool people into downloading spyware and viruses. There is no way to automatically force the user to run the malicious software.
Security vendor Symantec is warning that Apple's OS X operating system is increasingly becoming a target for hackers and malware authors. Contrary to popular belief, the Macintosh operating system has not always been a safe haven from malicious...
Rob Chapman, founder of the Training Camp which runs ethical hacking courses, agreed, saying the authors have played an important part in getting the malware issues into the public domain. The business use of malware means organised crime began to...
However, despite all these vulnerabilities, the Mac's resilient platform, its advanced automatic software update tools and the apparent lack of attention from malware authors means Apple users are far safer from attack than users of Windows.
In the past, the Storm worm authors would directly link to malware on websites or within spam emails. The two possible avenues of attack are spam with links to the as-yet-unlinked-to fast-flux sites, or injecting malicious iFrame tags into...
Landesman said: "Over the last year malware authors have moved away from direct attacks - attacks in which they directly interact with victims, via social engineering for example - to indirect attacks accomplished through compromised websites.