{"id":4772,"date":"2011-09-28T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/new-apple-os-x-malware-fraud-prevention-tips\/"},"modified":"2011-09-28T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T16:27:00","slug":"new-apple-os-x-malware-fraud-prevention-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/new-apple-os-x-malware-fraud-prevention-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"New Apple OS X Malware: Fraud Prevention Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new attack against Apple Mac OS X Lion was detected&#13;<br \/>\nearlier this week. The fraudulent threat is a Trojan, and is installed through&#13;<br \/>\na fake Adobe Flash installer downloaded from a third party site.<\/p>\n<p>The Trojan is called the Flashback, and uses social&#13;<br \/>\nengineering to prompt the user to download and install the malware. The user&#13;<br \/>\nmust complete the installation process for the malware to function. The&#13;<br \/>\ninstallation process looks just like what a standard Adobe update looks like,&#13;<br \/>\nonly the update didnt come from the Adobe web site.<\/p>\n<p>We always say your strongest fraud prevention tool is&#13;<br \/>\nyourself. Never download an Adobe Flash update unless you are on Adobe.com as a&#13;<br \/>\nURL address verification step.<\/p>\n<p>Other tips:<\/p>\n<p>Stay&#13;<br \/>\nalert  dont install an update unless youre familiar with it<\/p>\n<p>Run&#13;<br \/>\nantivirus and internet security software on a regular basis<\/p>\n<p>Act&#13;<br \/>\non any notifications that come up during your security scans<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new attack against Apple Mac OS X Lion was detected&#13;<br \/>\nearlier this week. The fraudulent threat is a Trojan, and is installed through&#13;<br \/>\na fake Adobe Flash installer downloaded from a third party site.<!--StartFragment--><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}