malware

It has been well over five years since I've had any kind of malware on my MacBooks that create false Notifications, alerting to malware in Safari that does not exist in order to steal information or sell antivirus software. As I recall, to get rid of it before, it was a matter of deleting the...

Hey all, I'm trying to debug an issue on my iPhone 13 Pro, running iOS 17. I am using developer mode to examine system processes. I found this obscure process called Lighthouse Nightingale Extension. I've tried googling it. I find information on a macOS Lighthouse extension, but nothing...

Hello everyone. I have been long suspicious that my ex (and child’s father, with whom I am in a legal matter with for DV) may have access and is monitoring my devices. I don’t know if it’s one device, or all. My suspicion is he may have access to my texts, internet activity, location, possibly...

Hey Everyone, I currently use a MBP M1 and I've had cc details stolen twice. I am currently living in India and this is what happened: I used my brothers credit card details to purchase a Flight ticket on Qantas' website and about a week later his card was used for a transaction at...

Bleeping Computer - "New Realst macOS malware steals your cryptocurrency wallets" https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-realst-macos-malware-steals-your-cryptocurrency-wallets/ "A new Mac malware named "Realst" is being used in a massive campaign targeting Apple computers, with some...

Kaspersky: “While monitoring the network traffic of our own corporate Wi-Fi network dedicated for mobile devices using the Kaspersky Unified Monitoring and Analysis Platform (KUMA), we noticed suspicious activity that originated from several iOS-based phones.” “What we know so far ... This...

Hello, I recently had someone on Upwork create a macOS app for me. Now, I have no reason to believe that they created a macOS app with malware included... I would like to trust... buit, I would especially like to verify. I haven't run the app yet, as Gatekeeper prevented it from opening...

Analysis of the KingsPawn malware / ENDOFDAYS exploit used against iOS 14 The Citizen Lab - Sweet QuaDreams: A First Look at Spyware Vendor QuaDream’s Exploits, Victims, and Customers https://citizenlab.ca/2023/04/spyware-vendor-quadream-exploits-victims-customers/ “We also identify traces of a...

I have an old 2013 Macbook air that I’ve tried to recover using Internet Recovery but twice got error 2003F. Third time’s the charm and it is now installing Big Sur from Internet Recovery. What could have caused the 2003F error? Read a few articles online and some of them mentioned that is...

Hello, I recently purchased a used 2018 MacBook Pro off of eBay. It looks to be in good shape. (other than the known gfx/display issue) upon receiving the machine I went to boot into the recovery tools but it as it turns out there was no recovery partition. (this struck me as odd... does this...

My friend bought some random no-name Chinese Lightning to HDMI adapter off of Amazon. Without thinking, I was the first one to test it out with my phone to connect it to a TV. I was startled because at first the adapter displayed an amateur "Welcome" splash page with Chinese text on it on the...

After updating to iOS 16 and going to "Settings/General/Background app refresh" I've found an app called "Web" without icon that apparently is not installed in my iPhone (no way to find it). Do you have the same on your device? Or it is something that shouldn't be there? Please let me know :)

There’s been a lot of talk about In-app Browsers recently especially with TikTok and Instagram, etc… One thing I’ve been wondering: How safe are In-App Browsers? Not in terms of injecting JS code from the app itself, but for example, clicking on a link within Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, etc…...

Today someone hacked my keyboard at an airport via Bluetooth while I was sitting in the ticketing area waiting to check in. Wonder if anyone can identify what they installed or how they did this. After using my MacBook a while, it was closed, and it began to beep endlessly, like when you’ve hit...

Update: I just flashed macOS to a USB thumb drive. The red box around the Apple logo still appeared. That rules out SSD issues. This is largely to keep others on their toes and provide information, but I do have questions. These are at the end. I am also attaching two EtreCheck reports, one...

A friend is getting a popup every time he goes to a field with a username that has what appears to be a fake QR Code - fake as in it keeps changing (animated) at a fast rate. Malwarebytes doesn't twitch. Anyone seen anything like this?

When I start typing the word English on the address bar in safari a full web address show up Englishonlineclub . com but the problem is that I don't remember going to that page and more storage is that in the middle of writing "English" the Imac start spelling (voice) letters in what I think is...

## iOS BUG or Malware? * Duplicate Hidden Folders * Duplicate Legacy Locations * Duplicate but different Shelf Thumbnails It’s almost as if the iPad has a cloned partition on it .. a hidden sandbox app .. possibly malware .. accessed through the Files app using legacy API’s .. it could explain...

I am currently using Malwarebytes and the price for a subscription isn't too bad. But obviously, any price is too much if the app can't actually do anything about the worst malware out there. And another question is if I am even in danger, considering that I'm just using this Mac privately, as...

Guys, Hoping you can help - I've read the threads on the forum and a lot of you are very knowledgable. I've got a 2019 MacBook Pro Retina and for the past few months I havre had a virus / malware issue. I've taken it to Apple, spoken to Apple Support and even contacted and visited several...