Bad actors out there appear to interpret the popularity of Google Chrome as a call to action. When a new Mac adware nasty is released, it almost certainly supports this web browser otherwise the attack surface is potentially limited. Redirect viruses and ad-injectors are literally swarming in this environment, making numerous users go through trial and error trying to fix things. This article describes the prevalent forms of the Chrome redirect virus Mac and provides a shortcut to removing it.

Social engineering hoaxes and Mac malware distribution campaigns go hand in hand. The fundamental principle of this tandem is about duping a user into installing a piece of harmful code that mimics a legitimate product. This has been the case with the infamous Adobe Flash Player update scam for years. Now that Adobe is dropping support of this nearly obsolete software, crooks are busy spreading malicious apps under the guise of the Flash Player Uninstaller tool.

The bug allowing this unorthodox exploitation to occur was originally spotted by the MacRumors website crew almost two years ago (in February 2019). In a nutshell, it boils down to an imperfection in the link-sharing feature of Safari on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch mobile devices. While allowing anyone to add a text excerpt from an arbitrary article to the iMessage link preview...

The “nobleman” theme continues to be the trend in the cybercrime ecosystem that exploits Mac computers via a massive web traffic redistribution scheme. The Search Baron browser hijacker, which splashed onto the scene in July 2019, has been superseded by Search Marquis culprit. Both act in a similar fashion, forwarding the victims to Bing in the long run. Here’s a full security report on this brand new infection.

Cybercrime married browser takeover a long time ago. This is one of the longest-running plots in the Mac area that yields lucrative results for bad actors by bringing large amounts of traffic monetization revenue. The idea is to redirect users to rogue search engines such as ib-search via a series of domains constituting ad networks. If this type of a hijack kicks in, reverting to correct web preferences is easier said than done. It’s doable, though. This article will explain how.

Online privacy tends to be a misnomer in the context of major search providers. The big names in this landscape are notoriously intrusive as far as users’ sensitive data is concerned. Whereas this state of things has generally become the norm, lots of people are unwilling to put up with it and they opt for services like DuckDuckGo. However, this prudence could still have a flip side.