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New Version of the MaControl Trojan Spotted In the Wild
EliSowash writes "A new version of the MaControl malware has been reported in the wild. More information on the malware, its behavior, and the attack campaign is available from Kaspersky Labs, who discovered this variant. As more malware authors become motivated to attack OS X it is likely that we will continue to see targeted attacks such as this in the future. Just like with PC malware, a combination of exploits and social engineering tricks are generally the most effective; it won't be surprising to see a spike in such attacks soon."
A wild MaControl appears!
After all, everyone knows that Mac's can't get viruses.
Ah, the burdens of increasing marketshare: You're now statistically significant enough for the criminal element to take an interest. In every other part of IT, 'ease of use' is almost diametrically opposed to 'secure'. Until recently, mac users refused to believe this piece of wisdom, pointing to the lack of viruses and malware, and (erroneously) concluding that it was because their OS of choice was somehow more resiliant to such attacks.
It will probably take more evidence to convince the hardcore (like their computer suddenly talking in latin and shooting flames at their face), but the average mac user will likely be more sensible. I hope.
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The article commits the worst sin of all - the extra apostrophe. The plural of Mac is Macs. Not Mac's. Reading that is like snagging my eye on a nail.
Literally every time there's some new bit of Mac malware, we see a chorus of predictions in the form of "This is it, now the floodgates are going to open!" This has been going on for years, and these predictions have all been wrong. There are a couple of a new threats a year, and there isn't actually any particular reason to believe we're on the cusp of a dramatic non-linear increase.
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I thought the real world was more than your parents' basement. Perhaps I was mistaken!
You're also a little late. Us "Mactards" joined the supposed real world way back in the pre-OS X days. Malware on the Mac is nothing new. You're many years late to the party, presumably because you were born in the mid 90s. ;)
FTFA:
Kaspersky Lab’s researchers analyzed the Mac OS X backdoor and concluded that the malicious application is a new and primarily undetected variant of the MaControl backdoor, which supports both i386 and PowerPC Macs. However, Kaspersky Lab’s system detects the malicious variant as “Backdoor.OSX.MaControl.b.”
Um.... yes, some people get on their high horse based on bad/falser/only partially true information, but that only represents a certain % of people - welcome to the real world, dipshit.
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Sweeping generalizations ahead.. The Emperor's New clothes.. Mac users vs security.. I bought a 2009 Macbook pro last year, not because i'm an Apple lover, I'm really not.. I'm a long-time Linux user, well, since 1997 anyway, who got fed up with plastic laptops and all that kind of thing, so i wanted a metal laptop with back-lit keyboard and so the Macbook pro arrived. its a Linux PC. job done. get on with Linux. I thought I'd have a play with OS X seeing as its still on a partition somewhere, & i had questions,.. try as i might, as a secret Linux user on Mac forums, i was staggered, indeed disgusted at some of the smug attitudes and total denial displayed on some of their forums. and don't get me started on Steve worship. Apple stopped being cool when Woz left. I don't exactly welcome the news of any OS exploits, but Fisher Price, sorry, 'average Mac users' really need to wake up and stop 'the big lie', the cognitive dissonance displayed only seems to reinforce their cult-ish views that the non-Mac proletariat really are 'out to get them' - achieving nothing worthwhile. Cast your mind back a short while, when the fake AV thing hit Macs, did they change ? most did not. the same old lie, Macs don't get infected was peddled again in response. How can a shiny toy get virus ! even forget the pwn2own, average Mac user wont know about this, and so will not accept it as proof. they miss Slashdot, dont know what Linux is, never heard the word, and with little or no knowledge are joining in on the Windows Sucks bandwagon, probably because its fashionable to do do, ironically though many windows users are actually (now) aware how susceptible PC's are to attacks, thereby putting, or rather with Mac users putting *themselves* at a distinct disadvantage from the 3 main OS camps, while (often) effecting an assumed knowledge.. such an obvious disconnect is rare, and i now have little empathy for Mac users. - most win users know they are on a vunerable OS, Mac users generally don't, Linux users are generally busy fixing everyone else's computers. Hmmm.. there's more, but i think everyone's already fell asleep if they're reading.. ./Randy
Mac OS is immune to viruses! Steve Jobs said so! Its design is so advanced that it can't possibly become infected!
that you apparently think you've just zinged the quoted AC says more about your homophobia than it does about the AC's supposed homosexuality
Ha HA you got him AC is a total fag.
Slashdot: providing anti-social weirdos a soapbox, since 1997.
Do people use Macs to store anything of real importance on? I mean when i think of servers or services that people might want to use malware to gain access to, Macs aren't really on the list.
It's actually a government operation, terrorists are generally known to be mac users. Remember what happened in the "big apple" in 2001? That's why the Apple logo has a big bite out of it, symbolic of their plot to destroy America....... they've been recruiting terrorists for years. It's pretty obvious, you people are blind.
My boyfriend is ok with it, bet your hand would be happier if you watched some porn from time to time and maybe go out from your parents basement
I did fall asleep, thanks man for getting me fired! But your point still stands, one of the reasons I still buy portables from Apple is due to the Aluminium and magsafe, considering making a mint macbook air later on~~but $$ is running tight
I thought the real world was more than your parents' basement. Perhaps I was mistaken!
oh well crafted...what does that even mean? ~95% of computer users aren't mac users, are you implying that no one but mac users venture from their parents' basements?
You're also a little late. Us "Mactards" joined the supposed real world way back in the pre-OS X days. Malware on the Mac is nothing new. You're many years late to the party
Funny that you purport to be knowledgeable yet fail to realize it's only in recent times that Apple has begun toning down and even yanking its erroneous virus/trojan/malware free claims from its website. I suppose you 'joined the real world' but Apple didn't?
Couple that with the contradictory claims of 'Macs can run Windows' but 'Macs can't get PC viruses' and Apple is looking pretty disingenuous and misleading.
How brave of you to log in and stand behind your arguments! Oh wait, the other thing.
You're in no position to be critiquing anyone, kid. Learn to log in first, then we'll talk.