User found another Mac backdoor: BackDoor.Coffee

Even on the first of June of this year, an article appeared on Habré " The era of antiviruses on Mac OS X has come officially ." And indeed, viruses and scareware under Mac OS X have started to appear, not so dangerous, but frightening "makovods", accustomed to the security of their OS, to a shudder at their knees. Panic forced Apple to give out "on the mountain" Internet Security. Perhaps this thing will help Mac OS X users protect themselves from the next backdoor, discovered by chance by one user. As far as is known, this is the third backdoor for the specified operating system will be more .

He discovered that this malware allows a cybercriminal to remotely block the usual management of a computer running Mac OS X, without the knowledge of the owner.



Currently, only two backdoors are known, BackDoor.DarkHole and BackDoor.Olyx. The first malware allows the creator to control the infected machine, for example, restart the computer, create, delete and move files and folders, launch web pages in the browser.
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BackDoor.Coffee, getting to the user's computer, creates problems with the keyboard and touchpad, nullifying any attempts at normal computer control. The malware intrusion mechanism is very simple:




After that, the malware is “ready for use”.


PS: This malware is probably already near you. Be vigilant and do not allow an attacker to lock your computer.