Fake virus warning sent via Safari Notifications

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Fake virus warning sent via Safari Notifications

This happened to a client of mine. (I'll have to look up her OS X version).

What I discovered, is the bad guys manipulated Safari's Notification to make it look like a virus alert was coming from Mac OS.

Under Safari -> Settings -> Websites -> Notifications there was an entry that had no website name, but had an entry. (Sorry, I didn't think of taking a picture of this.)

Removing this entry caused the problem to go away.

Here's the alerts she got:

Posted on Apr 23, 2024 7:04 PM

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Apr 30, 2024 7:18 PM in response to CA-Wind-Rider

CA-Wind-Rider wrote:

Yes, I'm reporting the same thing.

Go to Safari > Settings > Websites > Notifications, and remove all notifications there. On some websites you will see a message asking if your would like the site to send you notifications. These sites are added here and some of them will pop up these fake virus warnings. Personally, I never allow a site to send Notifications, so I recommend to remove all of them.

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