Posted on 07/07/2016 10:11:59 PM PDT by Utilizer
A newly discovered malware capable of cyber espionage and remote takeover is targeting Apple Mac computers, delivering its payload by opening up a backdoor connection to a command-and-control web server via the encrypted Tor network.
Named Eleanor (or Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor), the malware arrives disguised as a drag-and-drop file conversion application called the EasyDoc Converter.
The application is found on many credible third-party sites, according to an analysis from Bitdefender, whose security researchers uncovered the malware. The program is neither verified nor digitally signed by Apple.
In reality, the program's true purpose is far more malevolent, granting attackers a backdoor connection that allows them to manipulate files, execute commands and scripts (including at the root level), penetrate firewall defenses, administer databases, discover applications running on a machine, and send emails with attached files.
(Excerpt) Read more at itnews.com.au ...
Ping!
So what do we do
What you mean “we”, lo-rent?
:)
How can we tell if we have it? I don’t remember downloading anything like that, buy I would like to be sure.
Ignore it. Apple OSX already RECOGNIZES it as a known Trojan before if hit ever the wild. To get infected a user has to be industrial strength stupid, ignoring THREE separate system alerts telling him he was 1: downloading malware, 2: installing malware, and 3: doing a first run of malware from an untrusted source, each step of which requires him to type in an administrator”said name and password to continue being stupid!
There’s nothing new here. Bitdefender was not the discoverer of this malware and even their article appears almost word-for-word copied from the original articles from two days before. More info on the original post here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3446909/posts
Right, then. Thanks for the update.
To get infected a user has to be industrial strength stupid...
Really? You've never had a customer at that level?
I envy you, mate. *laugh* Cheers!
Thanks bro.
Ok hot shot....there are Mac users even if you are and are smarter or are a microsoft captive....
what do I do about it
Thank you
The article doesn’t make that clear at all....it just tells me bad things bathings run run
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