CVE-2009-0563

Uyghur activists are, once again, targeted with spear-phishing emails whose goal is to set up a backdoor on the victims’ computers. The Uyghurs are a Turkic ethnic group, most of which live in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People’s Republic of China. This time around only Mac users are targeted, with emails delivering booby-trapped .doc files that purportedly contain text regarding the Uyghur people and their political struggle: Concerns over Uyghur People.doc, 2013-02-04 … More →

Researchers have observed a recent spike in attacks against the Uyghur community to monitor their email and chat activities, according AlienVault and Kaspersky Lab.

Two security vendors have detected an uptick in targeted malicious software attacks against the Uyghur community, an ethnic group in western China that has long campaigned for greater independence from Beijing. The attacks have been engineered to target Uyghur supporters using Apple’s Mac OS X operating system. Costin Raiu, director of Kaspersky Lab’s global research […]

There are two variants of the Sabpab Trojan targeting Macs, according to security specialists. We reported earlier this week that Sabpab was targeting Macs using the same Java vulnerability that was used by the Flashback Trojan. Now the recently discovered Sabpab Trojan malware, is said to be targeting Macs using compromised Word documents, with the […]