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Mac Malware Archive (2006-2007)

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Intego Facebook Timeline: 2006. Intego Facebook Timeline: 2007. Intego Discovers Mac Virus: OSX.MachArena.A. Intego Discovers Bluetooth Worm: Inqtana.A. Intego Discovers Bluetooth exploit: Inqtana.d. Intego Discovers Mac OS X Metadata Exploit. Intego Discovers OSX.Exploit.MetaData.B. Intego Discovers Safari Shell Script Auto-Execution Vulnerability. Intego Discovers iPod Worm: W32.RJump.A. Intego Discovers Mac OS X Trojan Horse: OSX/Oomp-A (also called Leap.A) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE OOMPA-LOOMPA TROJAN HORSEALSO CALLED OSX/OOMP-A OR LEAP.A. The Real Threat of the Oompa-Loompa Trojan Horse.

OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse Changes Local DNS Settings toRedirect to Malicious DNS Servers. FBI Shuts Down DNSChanger Ring. Malware Operation Ghost Click; this sounds like something out of 24.

FBI Shuts Down DNSChanger Ring

But it’s a 2-year FBI investigation that brought down “a sophisticated Internet fraud ring that infected millions of computers worldwide with a virus and enabled the thieves to manipulate the multi-billion-dollar Internet advertising industry.” These cyber-criminals used the malware to do what is called “click fraud.” When you click on an ad or an advertising link on a web page, you expect to go to the web site that’s advertising. Intego Discovers OSX.Rooter.BlackCat.A.

Intego Discovers Mac OS X Backdoors: OSX.Rooter.ApeGate.A, OSX.ApeGate.A, OSX.ApeGate.B. Intego Discovers an Apple QuickTime RTSP URL Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Intego Discovers OSX.m3udp.gen.