Well, you knew it was only a matter of time before this showed up. Ah well, shit happens.
Miscreants have created a proof-of-concept sample of adware that targets Apple Mac OS X users. iAdware might, in theory at least, be silently installed onto Macs, running itself each time an application is loaded, anti-virus firm F-Secure reports. The malware takes advantage of unspecified security weaknesses in the OS to load itself as a system library without prompting users about what’s going on.
The article on the Reg goes on to point out that this adware is more notable for its rarity…well, as with anything like this where there is money to be had, just wait.
[tags]Adware, Hackers, Malware, OS X, Anti-virus[/tags]
