It circles around fake Chrome Security Update alerts appearing on a dodgy web page tailor-made to fit the context of an effective social engineering scam. One of the recent campaigns demonstrates a particularly treacherous method of delivering sketchy software. The types of harmful code focused on Macs are fairly versatile, and so are the distribution tricks behind them. Adware, scareware, and even ransomware are gaining momentum in this area that used to be thought of as ultimately safe. Nowadays, a bevy of different e-nasties are out there waiting to be installed onto Apple’s machines. When cyber threats targeting macOS – or rather Mac OS X back in the day – splashed onto the scene, no one could foresee the breadth and depth of their future impact.
This is a hands-on tutorial covering the Chrome Security Update virus Mac issue and an effective method to remove it from an infected system and web browser.
