Greenguy's Board - View Single Post - Mac users, be careful on port tube sites!

nate · 2009-06-15, 07:18 PM

Source: ZDnet

Researchers from ParetoLogic are reporting on a newly discovered Mac OS X malware variant posing as fake video ActiveX object found at a bogus Macintosh PortTube site.

The use of fake video codecs is a social engineering tactic exclusively used by malware targeting Windows, and seeing it used in a Mac OS X based malware attack proves that successful social engineering approaches remain OS independent.

Read more: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3575&tag=nl.e550

2009-06-15, 07:18 PM	#1
nate I can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Merica! Posts: 543	Mac users, be careful on port tube sites! Source: ZDnet Researchers from ParetoLogic are reporting on a newly discovered Mac OS X malware variant posing as fake video ActiveX object found at a bogus Macintosh PortTube site. The use of fake video codecs is a social engineering tactic exclusively used by malware targeting Windows, and seeing it used in a Mac OS X based malware attack proves that successful social engineering approaches remain OS independent. Read more: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3575&tag=nl.e550 __________________ Its just a jump to the left.