potent new backdoor trojan to macOS users

[Fritz]

https://arstechnica.com/information-tech...cos-users/

more 5h1the@d$ with nothing better to do.

[mikebw]

Very impressive and scary because there is nothing one could do to stop it once going to just a website.

Important to keep in mind who is being targeted though:

While advanced and potentially dangerous, there’s no evidence DazzleSpy is targeting anyone other than those visiting sites advocating for democracy in Hong Kong. That means readers should remember the chances of being infected are extremely low for everyone else.

Those with reason to think they’ve been infected with DazzleSpy can check a list of indicators in a post Eset published on Tuesday to see if they’ve been compromised.

And if your OS is up to date there is no need for concern over this particular threat:

The Eset researchers aren’t sure what the CVE designation is for the privilege-escalation vulnerability, but based on Google researchers’ findings, they believe it’s CVE-2021-1789. In any event, Eset said the vulnerability no longer exists in current versions of macOS.

[Fritz]

so far ......

[MrNoBody]

more 5h1the@d$ with nothing better to do.

I suspect those s-heads are well rewarded by their overlords at the
PRC's Ministry of State Security.

[DP]

I suspect those s-heads are well rewarded by their overlords at the
PRC's Ministry of State Security.

It was probably initiated by the Ministry...

[Fritz]

yea, well I hope they choke on vomit ....
not their own.

[mikebw]

Fritz wrote:
yea, well I hope they choke on vomit ....
not their own.

I could imagine a similar punishment might be in order if they chose not to help.

[jdc]

think the headline should be "for a literal handful of OSX users"

[C(-)ris]

Yea, how many people here are running the latest version of Monterey? That appears to be the only OS that is patched and not vulnerable.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....if one gets it....is one now......trojan man....!!!!???