Mac OS X malware posing as fake video codec

From ZDNet (Dancho Danchev)
Researchers from ParetoLogic are reporting on a newly discovered Mac OS X malware variant posing as fake video ActiveX object [paretologic.com] found at a bogus Macintosh PortTube site.
The use of fake video codecs is a social engineering tactic exclusively used by malware targeting Windows, and seeing it used in a Mac OS X based malware attack proves that successful social engineering approaches remain OS independent.  Read the full story [zdnet.com]

From ZDNet (Dancho Danchev)

Researchers from ParetoLogic are reporting on a newly discovered Mac OS X malware variant posing as fake video ActiveX object [paretologic.com] found at a bogus Macintosh PortTube site.

The use of fake video codecs is a social engineering tactic exclusively used by malware targeting Windows, and seeing it used in a Mac OS X based malware attack proves that successful social engineering approaches remain OS independent.  Read the full story [zdnet.com]

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