Mac spyware found at Oslo Freedom Forum

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Mac spyware found at Oslo Freedom Forum
Botnet	HangOver
Malware	Kitmos
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Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2013 / 2013-05-16
Editor/Conference	F-Secure
Link	http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002554.html (Archive copy)
Author	Sean Sullivan
Type	Blogpost

Abstract

“ The Oslo Freedom Forum is an annual event "exploring how best to challenge authoritarianism and promote free and open societies." This year's conference (which took place May 13-15) had a workshop for freedom of speech activists on how to secure their devices against government monitoring. During the workshop, Jacob Appelbaum actually discovered a new and previously unknown backdoor on an African activist's Mac.

Our Mac analyst (Brod) is currently investigating the sample.

It's signed with an Apple Developer ID.

Bibtex

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   editor = {F-Secure},
   author = {Sean Sullivan},
   title = {Mac spyware found at Oslo Freedom Forum},
   date = {16},
   month = May,
   year = {2013},
   howpublished = {\url{http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002554.html}},
 }