Coming soon to a Mac near you: serious malware

[jamescv7]

Last week I showed you how malware authors have begun using social engineering to target Google Chrome, with convincing replicas of Chrome’s bright-red security screens to trick victims into installing a package of malware.

Now I am seeing evidence that the next target is OS X. That’s potentially very bad news for Mac owners who have abandoned their PCs in the belief that switching to a Mac somehow immunizes them from malware.

Security experts know, of course, that there’s nothing magical about Macs when it comes to security. They just haven’t been targeted because Windows has been such a big juicy target for so long.

But now that Macs have achieved a critical mass of success in the marketplace, they’ve attracted the attention of malware authors. According to a report from a Danish IT security company, an underground group has completed work on a fully operational kit specifically designed to build malware aimed at the Mac OS platform:

Zdnet

So any OS have a chance and possible to have a virus to infect it.

 

[Gnosis]

Just think of all the disgruntled MAC users there will be due to their ignorance of malware and how to rid their systems of it.


Steve Jobs needs to start selling his OS's with idiot proof versions of HitMan Pro. lol

 

[LoftedAphid86]

Mac's UNIX operating system basis might just save it from getting malware as bad as Windows, but only time will tell.

 

[jamescv7]

Well malware writers next footstep is to produce more malware than before in Macs when they successfully do it in Windows.

 

[Gnosis]

The malware authors that are looking to steal something are content with WOS. The authors that are just looking to cause mayhem are foaming at the mouth for MAC. However, once they get some attention and entertain themselves, they will have another avenue to direct their online theft attempts.