{"id":2263,"date":"2013-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/14\/increase-in-targeted-attacks-highlight-growing-threat-of-malware-on-macs-it-news-from-v3-co-uk\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:57","slug":"increase-in-targeted-attacks-highlight-growing-threat-of-malware-on-macs-it-news-from-v3-co-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/14\/increase-in-targeted-attacks-highlight-growing-threat-of-malware-on-macs-it-news-from-v3-co-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase in targeted attacks highlight growing threat of malware on Macs &#8211; IT News from V3.co.uk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malware attacks on Uyghur supporters running Mac OS X have been on the rise over the past two months. According to a joint report from Kaspersky and AlienVault Labs, hackers are sending out virus laden email attachments that if opened put monitoring malware on Mac devices. &#8220;During the past months, we&#8217;ve monitored a series of targeted attacks against Uyghur supporters, most notably against the World Uyghur Congress (WUC),&#8221; wrote Kaspersky director of global research &#038; analysis team Costin Raiu in a blog post. &#8220;Although some of these attacks were observed during 2012, we&#8217;ve noticed a significant spike in the number of attacks during Jan 2013 and Feb 2013, indicating the attackers are extremely active at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With these attacks, we continue to see an expansion of the APT capabilities to attack Mac OS X users,&#8221; continued Raiu in the blog post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In general, Mac users operate under a false sense of security which comes from the years old mantra that \u2018Macs don&#8217;t get viruses&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Uyghur people have continued to experience tumultuous issues with the Chinese government and some support groups of the Uyghurs have pushed for independence from China.<\/p>\n<p>Link: http:\/\/www.v3.co.uk\/v3-uk\/news\/2243750\/increase-in-targeted-attacks-highlight-growing-threat-of-malware-on-macs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4750,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions\/4750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}