When downloading apps from outside Apple’s official marketplace, Mac users can never be sure that the software of choice is safe. The bad news is, there are myriads of rogue installation clients throughout the Internet. Although they appear to be useful and benign, their real purpose is to push malicious code such as Kuklorest under the guise of something free and nifty. The next thing the victim knows, the web browsers start defaulting to search.kuklorest.com without due permission.

The schemes leveraged by Mac adware authors are dynamically morphing toward higher complexity so that their infections are moving targets. With the invariable objective being about a sketchy redistribution of the victims’ traffic, malefactors regularly switch to using new components of their browser hijack algorithm. The searchsnow.com website reflects this approach as it now fuels the long-standing Bing redirect hoax alongside older counterparts that have gained a bad reputation in the macOS environment.

As indispensable as they are, web browsers are a weak link in computer security and get exploited big time. It might seem the reason is that people use them to visit various sites, some of which can be hacked or malicious – and that’s partially true. However, the biggest scourge is what the users download and what kind of harmful software can sneak inside the Macs this way. The QSearch virus story is just like that.

Streaming content is a driving force for a huge online economy and a favorite pastime for millions of users. It eliminates the need to download anything onto a local disk or other media – all it takes to enjoy videos is Internet connection plus sufficient bandwidth. Thankfully, this is the norm nowadays. Soap2Day is one of the services claiming to bridge the gap between users and popular streaming materials. But there is a caveat – read this article to find out what it is.

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.

The misdeeds of adware authors have an increasingly tangible footprint in the Mac world. This exploitation, in its current state, mainly spans redirects leading to search providers the victims don’t opt for, but sometimes the mischievous applications take a different route. In a recent move, threat actors have been serving junk ads and pushing sketchy services via gsecurecontent.com domain to which web browsers are being forcibly forwarded.