New Apple MacOS Malware Found Spying On Secure User Data & Traffic

Hardly anyone that owns an Apple MacOS machine, has ever been bothered by a computer virus. Computer viruses hardly exist in the Apple eco-system. With high-quality hardware and top of the class encryption, most MacOS users are oblivious to a threat of virus in the Apple Eco-system.

According to a recent report by McAfee Labs, the number of malware attacks that have occurred on MacOS systems in the past year of 2016, has seen a sudden increase of 744%!! The report also stated that the researchers have gathered nearly 460,000 samples of Malware from Apple MacOS computers, which in fact is just the tip of the iceberg.

Another team at CheckPoint has discovered a newly released malware for Apple MacOS the supposed malware is fully undetectable, through traditional methods. The malware will bring up zero detections on anti-Virus programs and has a signed and valid developer Apple certificate.

Now called DOK, the Apple MacOS malware is being slyly distributed through emails by means of Phishing, according to the two reports, this is the first major scale malware, currently targeting MacOS users.

Effects of DOK - The Apple MacOS malware has been designed to get administrator privileges and installs another root certificate on any target system. This allows the hackers and other malicious users to get complete access, to all of the victim's communication and all the secure data traffic as well.

Gatekeeper, the inbuilt Apple MacOS security feature has no effect on the DOK due to its valid and signed apple developer certificate. The new virus is virtually undetectable using traditional software and anti-viruses.

All Apple MacOS users are advised and recommended to click only trusted links in emails. It has become very easy to steal somebody's personal information using modern phishing methods. Hence, you should pay extra attention before providing your root password to an untrusted software, as well as while clicking on untrusted links on dicey websites and emails.