New Mac Virus Discovered, Making the Rounds 239
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."
Point and grunt ? (Score:5, Funny)
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 ?
Re:Misuse of the term "virus". (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Re:Point and grunt ? (Score:5, Funny)
Pardon my crystallized forebrain, but what's "point-and-grunt" ?
It's a Zune function. It's what you do before you squirt.
Re:So what's so special about this one? (Score:2, Funny)
Clearly this is propaganda perpetrated by Mac-Haters.
Re:Misuse of the term "virus". (Score:5, Funny)
What, like Game of Thrones?
Give me a fucking break (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Misuse of the term "virus". (Score:5, Funny)
Romanes eunt domus?