N. Korean hacker silhouette with North Korean Flag. (Getty Images) North Korean-linked hackers were caught experimenting with new macOS malware Researchers can’t tell if the malware was used in a campaign, or North Korean operatives were caught before they could deploy it in the wild. Nov 12, 2024 By Christian Vasquez
(Chesnot/Getty Images) Hackers have been exploiting ‘dangerous’ MacOS bug to run malware campaign Apple's grappling with another flaw. Apr 26, 2021 By Shannon Vavra
(LibreShot / Martin Vorel) MacOS backdoor appears to be update of tool previously used by Vietnam-linked group Researchers at Trend Micro say a newly discovered MacOS backdoor uses tactics previously associated with the group known as APT32 or OceanLotus. Nov 30, 2020 By Joe Warminsky
(Blake Patterson / Flickr) Pwn2Own hackers go remote, then crack macOS and Oracle machines anyway One team used the calculator app in a macOS as an entrypoint into taking over an entire machine. Mar 20, 2020 By Jeff Stone
(Photo via Flickr user Microsiervos / Remixed by Greg Otto) Apple disables group chat on FaceTime after discovery of bad bug A fix for the FaceTime bug is expected to ship to all users within the next week. Jan 29, 2019 By Greg Otto
(Flickr user Larry Qian No one is updating their Android devices, new data shows "Patch early and often?" Not so much. May 23, 2018 By Patrick Howell O'Neill
Alex Plaskett (AlaxJPlaskett), Georgi Geshev (munmap), Fabi Beterke (pwnfl4k3s) targeting Apple Safari with a sandbox escape at Pwn2Own 2018 Hackers beat Firefox and Safari to earn $105K at Pwn2Own Chinese contestants from major companies had been dominating the contest in recent years, but new regulations from Beijing prohibited them from joining this year's fray. Mar 16, 2018 By Patrick Howell O'Neill
(pexels) Serious flaw in Apple’s MacOS allows any user to gain full root access Anyone who can click a few buttons and type "root" can get admin access to Apple machines running High Sierra. Nov 28, 2017 By Greg Otto