Microsoft Detected Malware the drill Mac

Yocha News- Microsoft has detected a new malware targeted at computers running OS X made ​​by Apple. Malware is said to exploit a vulnerability in Office productivity suite has been patched for almost three years.

According to Jeong Wook Oh, Center Microsoft Malware Protection, malware is not widespread. However, it maintains, hackers will realize when people do not find a patch that was released as repairs. This makes the computer is at risk of becoming infected.

"Using Mac OS X is not very different from other operating systems. Although Mac OS X has introduced many technological precautions to reduce risk. His protection against security vulnerabilities associated directly with the update installed applications," said Oh .

PC World proclaimed, Thursday (03/05/2012), exploitation found that Microsoft does not attack the OS X Lion, but it can attack the snow leopard and the previous version.Oh, say, the attacker can know who attack computers, such as operating system version and patch level of sacrifice.

The malware is designed specifically for Mac OS X and is essentially a "back door". This means a device that allows control of a remote computer.

"In conclusion, we can see that the Mac OS X was not safe from malware. Speaking from the statistical side, with the increase of operating system users, the attack on the platform will rise," he said.

;