Contrary to the traditional perspective, spam isn’t an email-only phenomenon. It has become a multi-pronged vector of cybercrime over time and can additionally manifest itself through compromised applications, as is the case with the iPhone Calendar virus. When this type of exploitation is in place, rogue Calendar events and invitations may dupe users into clicking malicious links that lead to malware downloads, phishing pages, and other scams.

Malicious apps that diminish a Mac user’s Internet surfing experience through browser hijacking are growingly common. Arriving with a harmless-looking software bundle, such an infection will impose rogue web preferences to make the victim visit an unwanted junk site over and over. Feed Chunk App is a typical threat falling into this malware cluster. It redirects the traffic to feed.chunckapp.com page to push another notorious virus-riddled service called Safe Finder.

Falling victim to a browser hijacker is both a nuisance in terms of the symptoms and a drag when it comes to the fix. Although these threats don’t really damage anything on a Mac, they sprinkle their numerous components around the system to prevent accurate detection and effective removal. Binarymove is the name of a new adware strain that skews one’s web browsing defaults and redirects the traffic to junk and malicious sites without taking the user approval route.

Plug-ins can be a mixed blessing. On the one hand, they enable a bevy of features so that Mac users aren’t limited in their activities and the range of online materials they can view and access. On the other hand, though, a plug-in can be a weak link in one’s security set-up if it’s crudely designed or heavily targeted by malicious actors. To keep users safe, Apple may disable such known-vulnerable entities, displaying “Blocked Plug-in” alerts. These messages can also be shown by malware to tout additional infections.

Macs are just as prone to adware attacks as Windows PCs are. Although these aren’t high-profile compromise incidents, they cause a great deal of trouble to users by badly affecting the web surfing facet of computing. The multi-platform and cross-browser potentially unwanted application called Safe Finder triggers a noxious redirect activity, where victims keep hitting search.safefinder.com or search.macsafefinder.com without intending to at all. Read this article to learn what goals this hijacker pursues and how to get rid of it on macOS.

Browser-centric malware is taking the Mac world by storm. Rather than combat top-notch infections that utilize complex persistence techniques, the victims seem to be faced with the prosaic need for trashing some mischievous plugin and rectifying their Internet settings. Although this looks like good news and no big deal, the irritation caused by browser hijackers like SearchMine is huge, plus the cleanup isn’t as easy as it may appear.