Windows has been the brunt of the majority of attacks over the years, whether it be adware, spyware, or any other form of malicious software. Well, in the not-too-distant future, there might be a shift towards attacking Mac OS X systems, for some proof-of-concept adware has recently been developed to target Mac’s.

Miscreants have created a proof-of-concept sample of adware that targets Apple Mac OS X users. iAdware might, in theory at least, be silently installed onto Macs, running itself each time an application is loaded, anti-virus firm F-Secure reports. The malware takes advantage of unspecified security weaknesses in the OS to load itself as a system library without prompting users about what’s going on. [more]

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