Bleeping Computer

Remove the Updatechecker.exe Adware & Miner Trojan

The Updatechecker.exe Trojan is a package of malware programs that include the Taskhostw.exe miner and an adware component that displays advertisements every 60 minutes. When installed, ...
MacRumors

Malwarebytes: Macs Outpaced PCs in Number of Malware Threats Detected Per Endpoint in 2019, But Most Are Adware

Antivirus software developer Malwarebytes today shared its State of Malware Report for 2020 [PDF], which suggests that Mac malware is growing much more common. For the first time ever, Macs outpaced ...
Dark Reading

Mac Malware-Dropping Adware Gets More Dangerous

The latest version of a Mac Trojan called UpdateAgent, aka WizardUpdate, provides fresh evidence of the growing effort that some threat actors are putting into targeting Apple technologies. The ...
Dark Reading

Macs Still Targeted Mostly With Adware, Less With Malware

Apple Macs are not immune to malicious attacks, but outside of some major nation-state efforts, bad actors continue to use adware as the method of choice to make money from infecting the macOS ...
AppleInsider

Mac malware jumps more than 60% in three months, massive uptick in adware

The threat of malware has increased for Mac users in a short space of time, a report from Malwarebytes claims, with detected threats up by more than 60% from the fourth quarter of 2018 to the first ...