Android malware has jumped up 472% since July The open nature of the Android Market has led to a 472 percent increase in malware threats to the platform over the past four months alone, a new mobile security report claims. Josh Ong 14 years ago 136
New Mac OS X Trojan horse hijacks GPU, steals user data A new Trojan horse hidden in a Mac OS X application can steal sensitive user data and take control of the computer’s GPU to generate Bitcoins, a form of currency used online. Chris Smith 14 years ago 45
Fake Adobe Flash malware seeks to disable Mac OS X anti-malware protection A new version of an existing Trojan Horse posing as a legitimate Flash Player installer (named “Flashback.A” by a security firm) is designed to disable updates to the default Mac OS X anti-malware protection system, potentially leaving the system open to the manual installation of other malware without any system warnings. Chris Smith and Daniel Eran Dilger 14 years ago 40