Palo Alto Networks has found a Mac malware targeting the OS and iOS systems.
It is only thte second known malware family.
It is the first known malware to automate generation of malicious iOS apps.
It is the first to install in-the-wild malware on non-jail-broken iOS devices through enterprise
And the following is the most disturbing:
“WireLurker was used to trojanize 467 OS X applications on the Maiyadi App Store, a third-party Mac application store in China. In the past six months, these 467 infected applications were downloaded over 356,104 times and may have impacted hundreds of thousands of users.”
It is nigh time to implement an Anti-virus strategy for your mobile devices (Mac and Android)
download Sophos for Mac Anti-Virus
The last Mac Malware -called MacDefender was caught by Security Update 2011-003.
You can also set up a network based Intrusion Prevention System which kills the bad code before getting to the device
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