InfoWorld: Microsoft detects new malware targeting Apple computers

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Users should be sure their Mac version of Office has up-to-date patches

By Jeremy Kirk
MAY 02, 2012

Microsoft has detected a new piece of malware targeting Apple OS X computers that exploits a vulnerability in the Office productivity suite patched nearly three years ago.

The malware is not widespread, wrote Jeong Wook Oh of Microsoft's Malware Protection Center. But it does show that hackers pay attention if it's found people do not apply patches as those fixes are released, putting their computers at a higher risk of becoming infected.

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