Well, actually, it’s an old one. It’s at the Mac Virus site I kicked back into life a few months ago, primarily as a blog site.
However, I’ve been under some pressure to restore some of the features of the old Mac Virus site. While I’ll be restoring some (more) of the pre-OSX stuff for its historical interest, I don’t see that as a big priority right now. But as I’ve been talking quite a lot about Mac threats in the past month or two (see http://macviruscom.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/apple-security-snapshots-from-1997-and-2010/ for example), there’s been curiosity about what we’ve been seeing in the way of OS X malware.
Enter (stage left, with a fanfare of trumpets) the Mac Virus “Apple Malware Descriptions” Page at http://macviruscom.wordpress.com/apple-malware-descriptions/. Right now it consists of two descriptions of Mac scareware from 2008, so it’s at a very early stage of development. (It just happens to be those two descriptions because someone asked me about them yesterday.)
Isn’t this stuff available elsewhere, I hear you ask? Of course it is. The point about these descriptions is that unlike most vendor descriptions, they point to various other sources of (reasonably dependable) information, as well as including a little personal commentary. It’s a first cut at attempting to answer the question “if there’s so much Mac malware around, where is it?”
More later…
David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP
AVIEN Chief Operations Officer
Mac Virus Administrator
ESET Research Fellow and Director of Malware Intelligence
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http://smallbluegreenblog.wordpress.com/
http://blogs.securiteam.com
http://blog.isc2.org/
http://dharley.wordpress.com
http://macvirus.com
http://amtso.wordpress.com/