The attack where attackers recently systems within the corporate network of Facebook and Apple within managed to reduce also been successful at Microsoft, the company announced. Among other things, the Mac industry, as Microsoft has been hit.
“During our research, we found a small number of computers, including some in our Mac business unit, that using the same techniques that were infected by malicious software as reported by other organizations,” writes Matt Thomlinson Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Security team. He refers to the recent attacks on Apple and Facebook. Yet it doesn’t look that user data is at stake and the research still continues.
Before, it was already known that the attack via iPhoneDevSDK forum is expired, and especially on OS X systems, founded. On the popular forum was via a compromised administrator account, malicious javascript, that visitors to min.liveanalytics doorsluisde. On that site stood since January 15, a Java-zeroday-exploit, and on 30 January stopped the attacks. The hackers would from computers in Eastern Europe operated. Given the popularity of iPhoneDevSDK forum, it is likely that many more organisations are affected and it does not seem likely that the attacker specifically focuses on Facebook, Apple or Microsoft have addressed it.