Patrick Wardle, an ex-NSA hacker with a penchant for finding novel Apple Mac hacks, has proposed a new way snoops might spy on people via their webcams. As Macs make their camera sharable to multiple apps at the same time for perfectly legitimate reasons, it’s possible to create a malicious app that asks to use the webcam. Unlike with currentMac malware strains – like Eleanor and Crisis – the app wouldn’t just start using the camera, as the LED light would turn on and alert the user. Instead, Wardle’s malware would wait until another app – like Skype or Google Hangouts – ran so the spyware could piggyback on the process and start recording the victim. No known malware does this, even if it’s a simple feature to add, said Wardle. “It’s conceivable that there is malware out there already that is doing this.”
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Forbes