There are Mac apps that deliver unconditional value for the customer without any hidden caveats, and there are ones that only pretend to be useful in one way or another. The good news is, the former prevail over the latter. The bad news, though, is that when faced with the dubious kind of software, such as 1 Click PDF, the user is in trouble because of the irritating effects ensuing from the attack and considerable risks to their privacy.

Malvertising, or malicious advertising, is in vogue with Mac virus peddlers these days. Such a technique allows them to deliver bad code by taking advantage of human credulity rather than using top-notch infiltration methods. For instance, the TaskFresh virus campaign starts with tricky bundling, continues with annoying popup alerts, and moves into a fake Mac scanning stage to convince the victim into buying its license.

Identity theft is a big scourge of the modern Internet. Cybercriminals are particularly fond of this offending vector because they needn’t create malicious code to pull it off. In most cases, all it takes is a phishing email that tries to dupe the recipients into disclosing their sensitive credentials. This is what the iforgot.apple.com scam is like. Read more to find out how to act if confronted with this intricate fraud and what additional risks may stem from it.

In pursuit of more effective malvertising techniques, cybercriminals may take advantage of legit Internet services that are nearly bulletproof in terms of blacklisting. This is the case with popups and redirects taking place via rackcdn.com, a domain space owned by a Texas based company providing cloud solutions. The landing page reports rogue threats and recommends victims to install a piece of scareware.

No matter what they say, Macs get viruses and the stereotype about malware-free Apple computers is certainly obsolete. The electronic threats targeting this platform can manifest themselves in multiple different ways, from hijacking the browser or displaying counterfeit error reports - to mining cryptocurrency in the background. Read this article to learn what symptoms to look out for and how to get rid of a Mac virus if it’s on board and wreaking havoc.

Macs are made inherently flexible when it comes to performance, and there is usually no need to opt for anything third-party – ideally, the operating system copes with the task autonomously. If there are processes that siphon off too much memory, macOS identifies the hogs and triggers kernel_task process that performs the intelligent balancing. But what if this routine goes wrong and said entity is constantly eating up the CPU? Read more to find out.