A vulnerability in OS X Yosemite that went public last month is being used by cyber criminals to plant adware on Macs, a security researcher said today.
“As far as we’ve been able to determine, it just installs adware and junkware,” said Thomas Reed, director of Mac offerings at Malwarebytes, a San Jose, Calif. security firm. “It’s annoying, but not malicious.”
That’s not to say the vulnerability isn’t serious: The same group, or others, could easily leverage the vulnerability to infect Macs with more substantial attack code, Reed said.
The vulnerability — which is Yosemite-specific — was publicly disclosed last month by German researcher Stefan Esser, who also posted exploit code. According to a Korean researcher who goes by the nickname “beist” on Twitter, the bug had been reported to Apple before Esser revealed the flaw.
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