OS X Crimeware Kit Emerges

Trailrunner7 writes "Crimeware kits have become a ubiquitous part of the malware scene in the last few years, but they have mainly been confined to the Windows platform. Now, reports are surfacing that the first such kit targeting Apple's Mac OS X operating system has appeared. The kit is being compared to the Zeus kit, which has been one of the more popular and pervasive crimeware kits for several years now. A report by CSIS, a Danish security firm, said that the OS X kit uses a template that's quite similar to the Zeus construction and has the ability to steal forms from Firefox." Mac users are also being targeted by a new piece of scareware called MAC Defender.

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[oakgrove]

On my machine, every single userspace program runs with a different uid. No program has read or write permissions to any other program's data. And that's just one line of defence. And for people that run everything as themselves, there is http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppArmor"> apparmor that will effectively do the same thing.