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Snake malware ported from Windows to Mac

May 5, 2017 admin Adobe Flash Player, apple, Mac, Mac Trojan, malware, Snake, Threat analysis, Trojan, Turla, Uroburos

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 14:00:41 +0000

Snake, also known as Turla and Uroburos, is backdoor malware that has been around and infecting Windows systems since at least 2008. It is thought to be Russian governmental malware and on Windows is highly-sophisticated. It was even seen infecting Linux systems in 2014. Now, it appears to have been ported to Mac.

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Another OSX.Dok dropper found installing new backdoor

May 1, 2017 admin apple, Dokument.app, Mac, mac malware, Mac Trojan, malware, OSX.Dok, Threat analysis, Trojan

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 18:16:41 +0000

On Friday a sophisticated Mac Trojan was discovered, called OSX.Dok, which installs malware designed to intercept all HTTP and HTTPS traffic. This morning, Adam Thomas, a Malwarebytes researcher, found a variant of the OSX.Dok dropper that behaves altogether differently and installs a completely different payload.

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