September 1, 2015

Sneaky adware caught accessing users’ Mac Keychain without permission

“What they’re basically doing is using provided system calls to get the location of the [permission] window and the location of the OK button in the window,” Thomas Reed, Malwarebytes’ director of Mac offerings, told Ars. “Then they’re simulating a mouse click. I’m surprised nobody thought of that before.”

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