Patrick Wardle Over Sight: Exposing Spies on mac OS

One of the most insidious actions of malware is abusing the video and audio capabilities of an infected host to record an unknowing user. Macs of course, are not immune; malware such as OSX, Eleanor, OSX, Crisis, and others, all attempt to spy on OS X users. And as was recently shown by the author, more advanced malware could piggyback into legitimate webcam sessions in order to covertly record the local user. As there are no visible indications of this malicious activity (as the LED light is already on), the