Infinite Loop – Ars Technica
Newly discovered Mac malware may have circulated in the wild for 2 years
A newly discovered family of Mac malware has been conducting detailed
surveillance on targeted networks, possibly for more than two years, a
researcher reported Wednesday.
The malware, which a recent Mac OS update released by Apple is detecting as
Fruitfly, contains code that captures screenshots and webcam images, collects
information about each device connected to the same network as the infected
Mac, and can then connect to those devices, according to a blog post published
by anti-malware provider Malwarebytes. It was discovered only this month,
despite being painfully easy to detect and despite indications that it may have
been circulating since the release of the Yosemite release of OS X in October
2014. It's still unclear how machines get infected.
"The first Mac malware of 2017 was brought to my attention by an IT admin, who
spotted some strange outgoing network traffic from a particular Mac," Thomas
Reed, director of Mac offerings at Malwarebytes, wrote in the post. "This led
to the discovery of a piece of malware unlike anything I've seen before, which
appears to have actually been in existence, undetected for some time, and which
seems to be targeting biomedical research centers."
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