New Malware Detected Affecting Macs

When I had the opportunity to interview Ángel Ochoa, he warned me that the Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), They have an operating system that, although it is one of the safest, is based on Linux, so if it can be infected, a virus can also be introduced into iOS or in OS X.

They can control your Mac remotely

From 9to5Mac warn that developers, so far anonymous, have been successful infecting Nvidia branded graphics cards and thus be able to spread the virus on computers with Linux and Windows operating systems. They claim that they will soon be in a position to do the same with Macs.

WIN_JELLY MAC_JELLY

The malware called WIN_JELLY allows remote control over the infected machine as long as there is an available Internet connection. They have not yet managed to polish the version for Mac, but they claim to be very close to achieving it. Doing so will change the name to MAC_JELLY. The intention of the developers is not malicious, but to report the vulnerability so that it can be corrected.

This is what the Hacking, white hats at the service of the user.

The achievement of malware is mainly due to two reasons:

  1. The new graphics cards demand and are allowed to extend their work capacity due to the processes that operating systems need to run applications without problems.
  2. Most virus detection tools do not scan your graphics card's RAM.

The Mac version will use OpenCL, a framework for writing code that can run on multiple platforms (including GPUs) and is installed standard as part of OS X.

We know that viruses are rare in OS X y iOS but no system is safe from viruses. In fact it was recently created "Wirelurker", a family of malware designed to attack computers with OS X and infect devices from there iOS connected by USB. It was the first time that malware capable of infecting apps installed on iOS in a similar way to traditional viruses.

We will be attentive to all the news that occurs around this new malware and above all how to solve it.

SOURCE | 9to5Mac


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  1.   Charles LeMare said

    I don't know who Angel Ochoa is, but I do know that he is deeply mistaken. MacOSX and iOS are based on BSD, which has no relation to Linux, ergo a vulnerability in one does not imply a vulnerability in the other. That said, it is well known that they are both types of Unix, and many of the operating system's secondary programs originate from GNU. If the vulnerability occurs in any of these programs, then if they are problems that would affect both MacOSX and iOS or versions of GNU / Linux such as Ubuntu, Debian or another. If the vulnerability is in the kernel then what affects one will not affect the other