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Title: Cyberespionage group uses port of Windows backdoor to attack OS X Post by: HCK on September 07, 2014, 09:00:20 am Cyberespionage group uses port of Windows backdoor to attack OS X
<article> <section class="page"> <p> A group of hackers known for past cyberespionage attacks against the U.S. Defense Industrial Base, as well as companies from the electronics and engineering sectors, has recently started using a backdoor program to target Mac OS X systems.</p><p> “The backdoor code was ported to OS X from a Windows backdoor that has been used extensively in targeted attacks over the past several years, having been updated many times in the process,” security researchers from FireEye said Thursday in a blog post (http://www.fireeye.com/blog/technical/malware-research/2014/09/forced-to-adapt-xslcmd-backdoor-now-on-os-x.html).</p><p> The malicious program is dubbed XSLCmd and is capable of opening a reverse shell, listing and transferring files and installing additional malware on an infected computer. The OS X variant can also log keystrokes and capture screen shots, the FireEye researchers said.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2603440/cyberespionage-group-starts-using-new-mac-os-x-backdoor-program.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Cyberespionage group uses port of Windows backdoor to attack OS X (http://www.macworld.com/article/2603440/cyberespionage-group-starts-using-new-mac-os-x-backdoor-program.html#tk.rss_all) |