Equation super cyberspies target Macs with malware, too

  • 17 February 2015
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By Gregg Keizer
 

Kaspersky Lab finds clues to malware planted on Chinese Macs, attempts to hack iPhones.

 
The Equation cyberespionage group that used tools similar to those deployed in the past by U.S. intelligence agencies appears to have targeted Macs as well as Windows PCs, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said yesterday.
"All the malware we have collected so far is designed to work on Microsoft's Windows operating system. However, there are signs that non-Windows malware does exist," Kaspersky wrote in an expansive white paper (download PDF) released Monday.
 
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