{"id":658430,"date":"2013-05-16T10:47:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T14:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=151221"},"modified":"2013-05-16T10:47:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T14:47:15","slug":"new-mac-spyware-discovered-at-oslo-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658430","title":{"rendered":"New Mac spyware discovered at Oslo conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-134372\" title=\"eye spy keyhole\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/eye-spy-keyhole-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Today security firm F-Secure announces the discovery of a new Mac-based spyware program, the latest in what has become a small, but growing trend. Attacks have previously <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2013\/02\/19\/if-apple-cant-protect-itself-from-malware-how-can-you-trust-it-to-protect-you\/\" >affected<\/a> Apple itself, as well as users in the wild. The latest problem was discovered at a recent conference in Oslo, Norway.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oslofreedomforum.com\/\">Oslo Freedom Forum<\/a>, an event that is designed around the\u00a0world&#8217;s most influential dissidents, innovators, journalists, philanthropists, and policymakers, just wrapped up on May 15. During a workshop on\u00a0freedom of speech,\u00a0Jacob Applebaum, an independent computer security researcher,\u00a0discovered a new and previously unknown backdoor on an African activist&#8217;s Mac.<\/p>\n<p>F-Secure is currently investigating this, but has found that it is\u00a0signed with an Apple\u00a0Developer ID. The security firm also has determined that the program\u00a0dumps screenshots into a folder called MacApp and that there are two\u00a0C&amp;C servers related to this attack, neither of which could be reached &#8212; one is unresolved, while the other is &#8220;forbidden&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>F-Secure has dubbed this malware with the catchy name of &#8220;Backdoor: OSX\/KitM.A. (SHA1: 4395a2da164e09721700815ea3f816cddb9d676e)&#8221;, and is continuing its investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the Oslo Freedom\u00a0Forum revolves around helping users to secure their devices against government monitoring. The finding is just one more reminder that Macs are no more secure than Windows, just simply less targeted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Credit:<\/strong> <a id=\"portfolio_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/gallery-180313p1.html\" >Brian A Jackson<\/a>\/ShutterStock<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=Gff9NPZega8:l1XKgk-DxZI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=Gff9NPZega8:l1XKgk-DxZI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/Gff9NPZega8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today security firm F-Secure announces the discovery of a new Mac-based spyware program, the latest in what has become a small, but growing trend. Attacks have previously affected Apple itself, as well as users in the wild. The latest problem was discovered at a recent conference in Oslo, Norway. The\u00a0Oslo Freedom Forum, an event that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}