If you are going to be at RSA in San Francisco next week, we highly recommend you attend Patrick Wardle’s
talk
on
OS X
malware in 2016 – not just because it is important for
Mac
users to know that they too can fall victim to malware, but also because Patrick is an excellent speaker.
We know, because we have been lucky enough to have him speak at several
VB
conferences, most recently at VB2016 in Denver where Patrick, who is Director of Research at
Synack
, presented a
last-minute paper
on the possibilities of
Mac
malware recording the user via the webcam. Patrick looked at some ‘webcam-aware’ malware samples, and also discussed a new way for malware to covertly record a user-initiated video session.
He also shared his ‘OverSight’ tool that can help users detect ‘secondary’ processes attempting to access an existing
OS X
video session. Like all of Patrick’s detection tools, it is freely available from his
Objective See
website.
Today, we have uploaded the video of Patrick’s VB2016 presentation:
If you are interested in
Mac
malware, why not read the
Virus Bulletin
article
Patrick wrote in 2015, in which he warned about the possibility of dylib hijacking on
OS X
, or read a
blog post
he wrote on his own site this week on the first in-the-wild example of social-engineering macro malware for
OS X
.
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