{"id":195132,"date":"2017-01-19T11:13:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T09:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=195132"},"modified":"2017-01-19T11:15:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T09:15:39","slug":"new-apple-mac-malware-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/195132-new-apple-mac-malware-discovered.html","title":{"rendered":"New Apple Mac malware discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-analysis\/2017\/01\/new-mac-backdoor-using-antiquated-code\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Malwarebytes has discovered<\/strong><\/a> the first Mac malware of 2017, which had gone undetected for some time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d said Malwarebytes&#8217; Thomas Reed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis led to the discovery of a piece of malware unlike anything I\u2019ve seen before, which appears to have been in existence for some time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reed said the Mac malware appears to target biomedical research centres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only reason I can think of that this malware hasn\u2019t been spotted before now is that it is being used in very tightly-targeted attacks, limiting its exposure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reed said the malware uses the &#8220;unsophisticated technique&#8221; of a hidden file and a launch agent.<\/p>\n<p>This makes it easy to detect and remove, and Malwarebytes will detect this malware as OSX.Backdoor.Quimitchin.<\/p>\n<p>Apple calls the malware Fruitfly and has released an update that will protect against future infections.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/192688-company-raises-alert-over-russia-linked-malware.html\">Company raises alert over Russia-linked malware<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malwarebytes has discovered the first Mac malware of 2017, which had gone undetected for some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":123802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2120,801,31208],"class_list":["post-195132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-mac","tag-malware","tag-malwarebytes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195160,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195132\/revisions\/195160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}