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Title: Sneaky new Mac malware suggests notorious spy vendor Hacking Team is back Post by: HCK on March 02, 2016, 09:00:16 pm Sneaky new Mac malware suggests notorious spy vendor Hacking Team is back
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Security researchers have identified a new piece of OS X malware that may come from Hacking Team, the controversial Italian company that sells surveillance software to governments.</p><p> The malware is a “dropper,” which is used to plant other software onto a computer. In this case, it appears intended to install Hacking Team’s Remote Control System (RCS).</p><p> “The dropper is using more or less the same techniques as older Hacking Team RCS samples, and its code is more or less the same,” wrote (https://reverse.put.as/2016/02/29/the-italian-morons-are-back-what-are-they-up-to-this-time/) Pedro Vilaca, an OS X security expert with SentinelOne, on his blog.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3039459/security/surveillence-outfit-hacking-team-may-have-released-a-new-piece-of-os-x-malware.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Sneaky new Mac malware suggests notorious spy vendor Hacking Team is back (http://www.macworld.com/article/3039459/security/surveillence-outfit-hacking-team-may-have-released-a-new-piece-of-os-x-malware.html#tk.rss_all) |