OS X Crimeware Kit Emerges 202
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.
Masses reaction (Score:4, Funny)
"It can't be! Macs don't get malware! Protect us, Steve J!"
Well? (Score:5, Funny)
If I'm going to get Mac malware, I damn well better have the best malware experience that the industry has to offer. Heck, I'd probably even be willing to pay $20 for something that windows users get for free and linux nerds compile from source, if the interface is good enough...
Re:Masses reaction (Score:5, Funny)
Sent from my iPad.
Security through Obscurity = FAIL (Score:1, Funny)
How do you execute the script? (Score:2, Funny)
Or you can just distribute through a .dmg with script that executes as soon as the user mounts the .dmg file
You can? I don't think DMGs have anything like windows Autoplay, there's no ability to automatically run a script.
Safari will automatically play some kinds of files or mount DMG, but only if you have the option for that checked (though it is the default),