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J the Hugget said it was only a matter of time...
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<blockquote data-quote="jhuggett" data-source="post: 154709" data-attributes="member: 2"><p>I'm actually surprised it took as long as it did but now that its here it seems to evolving pretty quickly. It was only a couple weeks ago when reports started surfacing about Mac Defender which used pure social engineering as the exploit, now it's evolved into a drive by install. They also discovered the first "crime kit" for OS X, which makes creating malware a point and click activity... No hacker skills necessary.</p><p></p><p>It's still in the infantile stage and the attacks are pretty basic but if it continues along this pace expect to see AV evading techniques being employed and them making more use of 0 day exploits as the avenue of infection. They also start employing techniques that make removal very difficult if not impossible buy randomizing the executable names and packages, setting triggers to spawn new processes once one is killed. They are quite ingenious really.</p><p></p><p>Start making good back ups of your data now and keep your OS media available. Once it gets to that point it's often better to just start with a clean OS installation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jhuggett, post: 154709, member: 2"] I'm actually surprised it took as long as it did but now that its here it seems to evolving pretty quickly. It was only a couple weeks ago when reports started surfacing about Mac Defender which used pure social engineering as the exploit, now it's evolved into a drive by install. They also discovered the first "crime kit" for OS X, which makes creating malware a point and click activity... No hacker skills necessary. It's still in the infantile stage and the attacks are pretty basic but if it continues along this pace expect to see AV evading techniques being employed and them making more use of 0 day exploits as the avenue of infection. They also start employing techniques that make removal very difficult if not impossible buy randomizing the executable names and packages, setting triggers to spawn new processes once one is killed. They are quite ingenious really. Start making good back ups of your data now and keep your OS media available. Once it gets to that point it's often better to just start with a clean OS installation. [/QUOTE]
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