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FBI solves mystery surrounding 15-year-old Fruitfly Mac malware

Fruitfly malware author used port scanning with weak or no passwords to identify potential victims.

 

28th September, 2018  By Catalin Cimpanu

 

The FBI has solved the final mystery surrounding a strain of Mac malware that was used by an Ohio man to spy on people for 14 years.

 

The man, 28-year-old Phillip Durachinsky, was arrested in January 2017, and charged a year later, in January 2018.

 

US authorities say he created the Fruitfly Mac malware (Quimitchin by some AV vendors) back in 2003 and used it until 2017 to infect victims and take control off their Mac computers to steal files, keyboard strokes, watch victims via the webcam, and listen in on conversations via the microphone.

 

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