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Mac malware spreading for ~14 months is growing increasingly aggressive

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Mac malware known as UpdateAgent has been spreading for more than a year, and it is growing increasingly malevolent as its developers add new bells and whistles. The additions include the pushing of an aggressive second-stage adware payload that installs a persistent backdoor on infected Macs. The UpdateAgent malware family began […]

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I was a teenage Twitter hacker. Graham Ivan Clark gets 3-year sentence

(credit: Bob Jagendorf) A Florida teenager accused of orchestrating one of last year’s Twitter hacks—this one used celebrity accounts to make more than $100,000 in a cryptocurrency scam—pleaded guilty on Tuesday in exchange for a three-year sentence, it was widely reported. Authorities said that Graham Ivan Clark, now 18, and two other men used social […]