Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years
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Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years
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#2"It was also written in Perl, a language that's "archaic" for malware"
Perhaps why it's good at running under the radar.
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#3Gonna need it from a source better than Vice.
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#4Gonna need it from a source better than Vice.
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#5Gonna need it from a source better than Vice.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/07/24/apple...
The Vice article seems much better, and I'm not sure Forbes is a more reliable news source, but the corroboration is of course great.
Sounds like we'll be hearing more after BlackHat. Wish I wasn't skipping this year.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/07/24/apple...
The Vice article seems much better, and I'm not sure Forbes is a more reliable news source, but the corroboration is of course great. Sounds like we'll be hearing more after BlackHat. Wish I wasn't skipping this year.
Yeah the only other news sources I could find were zdnet and cnet.
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#7Is this the same thing? https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2017/01/new-ma...
It looks like this has been updated by Apple already?
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#8> Taking control of a command and control server, however, had another unexpected outcome: Around 400 victims infected with FruitFly started connecting to it.
"Unexpected"? How? This would have been obvious to Wardle. Maybe the journalist added this to "inject some suspense"? Thanks but no thanks, I won't bother reading the rest of this article.
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#9Does anyone know of a good way to check whether my Mac is infected with this (or any other) malware programs? I rarely, if ever, download unknown programs, and my OS is always up-to-date, but still...
Would appreciate for any pointers.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Vice article seems much better, and I'm not sure Forbes is a more reliable news source, but the corroboration is of course great. Sounds like we'll be hearing more after BlackHat. Wish I wasn't skipping this year.
Yeah the only other news sources I could find were zdnet and cnet.
I'd imagine they are all reporting from a common source or they read Vice.