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New Mac Virus Discovered, Making the Rounds
sl4shd0rk writes "A new Mac OS X exploit was discovered Friday morning by Kaspersky Labs which propogates through a zipfile attachment. The attachment tricks the Mac user into installing a variant of the MaControl backdoor via point-and-grunt. Embedded in the virus is an encrypted IP address belonging to a server in China which is believed to be a C+C server. Once installed, the virus opens a backdoor allowing the attacker on the C+C server to run commands on the compromised machine. Shortly after Kaspersky's announcement, AlienVault Labs claims to have found a similar version of the Mac malware which infects Windows machines. The Windows version appears to be a variant of the Gh0st RAT malware used last month in targeted attacks against Central Tibetan Administration. Both viruses are suspected of being tools in a campaign to attack Uyghur Activists."
Pardon my crystallized forebrain, but what's "point-and-grunt" ? Is that one of those newfangled hipster Fail-on-Rails thingamabobs that goes into the weird rounded USB thing on my tee-vee ?
-Billco, Fnarg.com
I know right?
I mean, since when did a pirate never sail the seas drinking rum and killing people for their loot? I mean they actually worked for it!
But now a days, you got these kids sitting at home, browsing sites, looking for software that is outside their financial reach so they can learn it to get a good job.
What a bunch of ass grabbers!
Clearly this is propaganda perpetrated by Mac-Haters.
Requiem for the American Dream
What, like Game of Thrones?
Most people on Slashdot are fucking idiots.
Kaspersky discovered that if users willingly execute files that turn out to be malicious, their computers will be backdoored.
In other news, I discovered that fire produces heat. Please front-page this important announcement immediately.
Romanes eunt domus?
I drank what? -- Socrates