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Title: New Targeted Attack Against Uyghur Mac Users Has Been Hitting the News
Post by: HCK on April 26, 2013, 11:01:00 pm
New Targeted Attack Against Uyghur Mac Users Has Been Hitting the News
      


A new targeted attack against Uyghur Mac users has been hitting the news. The threat is similar to OSX/CallMe.A we reported earlier this year and is already detected by Intego VirusBarrier. The new sample use the same Word vulnerability, CVE-2009-0563, patched by Microsoft on June 9th, 2009. It drops a backdoor for PowerPC and Intel Macs that [...]
      

http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/new-targeted-attack-against-uyghur-mac-users-hitting-the-news/