New Mac/iOS malware found. "biggest we've ever seen" (1 Viewer)

[SacramentoBob]

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/malicious-software-campaign-targets-apple-users-in-china/?_r=0

Researchers at a Silicon Valley security company said on Wednesday that they had found a new manner in which hackers can infect Apple products.

The company, Palo Alto Networks, reported that it had uncovered a malware campaign called WireLurker targeting Apple mobile and desktop users and said it was “the biggest in scale we have ever seen.”

Though the malware — malicious software designed to cause damage or steal information — is aimed at users in China and can be avoided, the campaign demonstrates new ways that attackers are targeting Apple iOS mobile devices.

The security company, based in Santa Clara, Calif., said that WireLurker had infected more than 400 applications designed for Apple’s Mac OS X operating system through the Maiyadi App Store, a third-party Mac application store in China. In the last six months, Palo Alto Networks said 467 infected applications were downloaded over 356,104 times and “may have impacted hundreds of thousands of users.”

The company said users’ iOS devices could also become infected if they connected their mobile device to their Macs through a USB wire. “WireLurker monitors any iOS device connected via USB with an infected OS X computer and installs downloaded third-party applications or automatically generated malicious applications onto the device, regardless of whether it is jailbroken,” Palo Alto Networks security researchers said. “This is the reason we call it ‘wire lurker.’”

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

python script to check your host OSX machine:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PaloAltoNetworks-BD/WireLurkerDetector/master/WireLurkerDetectorOSX.py

 

[SacramentoBob]

python script to check your host OSX machine:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PaloAltoNetworks-BD/WireLurkerDetector/master/WireLurkerDetectorOSX.py

Oh sure, you want us to just run some script from the internet. We're on to you buddy.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

python script to check your host OSX machine:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PaloAltoNetworks-BD/WireLurkerDetector/master/WireLurkerDetectorOSX.py

Oh sure, you want us to just run some script from the internet. We're on to you buddy.

Hide yo ports, Hide yo innernetz

 

[FigJam]

What a great day

Bending smart phones, nightmarish iOS phone upgrade, not acknowledging a virus until over 350k users have it... Oh, and here's a python script to identify if you have it... Someone give me air

Welcome to 2014 Apple...

 

[Slapdash]

IB4[icon]

 

[Foosball God]

Shouldn't you only be worried if you downloaded an App from Maiyadi App Store

 

[Fennis]

python script to check your host OSX machine:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PaloAltoNetworks-BD/WireLurkerDetector/master/WireLurkerDetectorOSX.py

Oh sure, you want us to just run some script from the internet. We're on to you buddy.

last time I ran that script my naked snapchats were posted

 

[Scoresman]

cant they just block any new Mac shipments from West Africa?

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

quarantine all Macs and iDevices

 

[SacramentoBob]

Shouldn't you only be worried if you downloaded an App from Maiyadi App Store

This is just what they've uncovered so far.

 

[irish eyes]

Hackers are the biggest losers on the planet and should be jailed for life or executed if caught. I put them right up there with pedophiles.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

Hackers are the biggest losers on the planet and should be jailed for life or executed if caught. I put them right up there with pedophiles.

Can we get your full rankings, including jaywalkers and genocidal dictators?

 

[Soulfly3]

Hackers are the biggest losers on the planet and should be jailed for life or executed if caught. I put them right up there with pedophiles.

your computer screen is gonna be raining 1's and 0's in no time for that comment

 

[Tackling Dummies]

Malware to exploit/avoid

 

[Gr00vus]

I think it's fixed already.

 

[Fennis]

Hackers are the biggest losers on the planet and should be jailed for life or executed if caught. I put them right up there with pedophiles.

Can we get your full rankings, including jaywalkers and genocidal dictators?

IMO:

genocidal dictators

pedophiles

hackers

jaywalkers

 

[The Commish]

It's only the beginning folks.....it's only a matter of time until someone looks into Apple Pay. There's a reason the banks were not comfortable with standard transmission types to do financial transactions with Apple.