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Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years

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Re: Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years

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Gonna 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.

Re: Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years

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post #5

Earlier 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.

Re: Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years

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> 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.

Re: Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years

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post #5

Earlier 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.
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