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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, ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 outpaced Windows PCs threats for first time in 2019, report says

According to a report from Malwarebytes on Tuesday, the number of malware threats detected on Mac endpoints outpaced those targeting Windows PCs for the first time in 2019, with adware accounting for ...