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."
Re:What is wrong with you people? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:What is wrong with you people? (Score:3, Interesting)
Speaking perfectly normally: they don't. Trojans have existed on Unix variants for decades, but that doesn't mean that the Unix community has been the cesspool of malware that Windows has been. Same for Apple.
If Nintendo ran ads touting the lack of a Red Ring of Death on the Wii, would that equate to saying that the Wii has had zero issues with malfunctioning hardware? You should see a doctor about that broken sense of proportion.
Which people, exactly. Periodically I'll ask haterz on Slashdot to point some out, and it usually goes like this:
So where are these fanboys, exactly.
"Everywhere, just look around!"
You'll have no problem finding some examples then
Crickets