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OS X Crimeware Kit Emerges
5/3/2011

Trailrunner7 writes "Crimeware kits have become a everywhere part of the malware scene in the last few years, but they have mainly been confined to the Windows platform. Now, reports are surfacing that the first such kit targeting Apple's Mac OS X field expenses system has appeared. The kit is being compared to the Zeus kit, which has been one of the more popular and permeating crimeware kits for several years now. A report by CSIS, a Danish sanctuary firm, said that the OS X kit uses a template that's quite similar to the Zeus illumination and has the ability to steal forms from Firefox."
Mac users are also being targeted by a new piece of scareware called MAC Defender.



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