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. 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. Under these schemes, using malware that changed the DNS (domain name server) settings on infected computers, you would instead be taken to a different computer, where you might go to a bogus web site, and potentially purchase something you thought was from a legitimate retailer; or be taken to web sites that earn money by displaying ads, often ads for pornographic web sites. We’ve often pointed out that the people behind today’s malware are out to make money.
So stay safe. 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.