Apple customers have been warned that they may have been exposed to hackers “hiding in plain sight” on their Mac devices after a 15-year-old vulnerability was discovered by a cyber security researcher.
The exploit could allow a hacker to install malicious software on devices like MacBooks to access personal, financial and sensitive insider information by fooling security products into thinking it is safe.
This would enable hackers to circumvent antivirus protection by pretending to be Apple, using a technique called “code signing” and sit on the device for years without the owner knowing.
The flaw was found be researchers at San Francisco cloud security company Okta. Josh Pitts, the researcher...