Apple's own Encryption Mechanism allows hacker to create an Undetectable Mac OS X Malware

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Mohit Kumar, The Hacker News - Monday, October 07, 2013

n the past, there was a general belief that Macs is much more secure than Windows PCs, but now Mac malware is a serious threat to the security of users’ computers and information.


One of the reasons behind the increase in Mac related Malware attacks is the fact that Apple products are popular with many prominent businessmen and influential politicians.


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Apple implements internally an encryption mechanism to protect some of their own executable like "Dock.app" or "Finder.app". This encryption can be applied to malware as well. If one does, anti-malware solutions can no longer detect the malware because of the encryption, but OS X has no problem loading such malware.

This same protection mechanism can be used on existing malwares that are already detected by Anti-malware products, to make them completely undetectable. Those same anti-malware products can no longer detect the malware because they don't understand it's encrypted.
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http://thehackernews.com/2013/10/apples-own-encryption-mechanism-allows.html

[onehandle]

1. Yet another OS X 'hack' that can as often affect the average user...

...as often as a lightning bolt can affect the average walker.

Wake us when there are a plurality of actual victims.