Shlayer

Shlayer Strikes Again Through Zero-Day in MacOS 11.3
Apple this week revealed that its new macOS 11.3 update comes with a fix for a critical vulnerability – one that hackers actively exploited with Shlayer malware that can sidestep Apple defenses ...
Six Trends Shaping the 2021 Cybersecurity Outlook
Article by Tom Kellerman, Head of Cybersecurity Strategy, Rick McElroy, Head of Security Strategy and Greg Foss, Senior Cybersecurity Strategist, VMware Carbon Black Everything is different, and yet the same. As we ...

Apple’s Big Brother Attitude Fails to Keep Users Safe
Apple’s insistence on “notarizing” apps fails to “give users more confidence,” as Cook’s crew promised ...

Shlayer Trojan Accounted for 30 Percent of Detections for macOS in 2019
The Shlayer trojan accounted for approximately 30 percent of all of Kaspersky Lab’s malware detections for the macOS platform in 2019. Kaspersky Lab revealed on Securelist that Shlayer has been the most ...

New Shlayer Malware Variant Targeting Macs
Security researchers have found a new variant of a trojan program dubbed Shlayer that infects Mac computers and disables the macOS Gatekeeper security agent. Shlayer was discovered a year ago by researchers ...

Trojan Infects Browser Extensions After Disabling Integrity Checks
Security researchers have discovered a new Trojan program dubbed Razy that installs itself as a browser extension or infects existing browser extensions after disabling integrity checks. According to researchers from Kaspersky Lab, ...