Security firm threatened with legal action for report highlighting adware

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Cybereason and its lead researcher Amit Serper targeted with legal threats by group behind OSX.Pirrit adware

An internet security company claims that it has been threatened with legal action for writing research identifying, and warning of, what it describes as a strain of MacOS adware. In a series of ...

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