OSX/Crisis Has Been Used as Part of a Targeted Attack

[Dermot7]

New information about the OSX/Crisis samples we spotted on VirusTotal is continuing to come to light. It turns out that the samples were submitted by a group of security researchers from DefensiveLab. They were submitting the files on behalf of a customer who was infected by the Trojan. The customer is a Moroccan journalist, and it appears that this infection is part of a larger attack that is being targeted against a group of independent Moroccan journalists who received an award from Google for their efforts during the Arab Spring revolution.

http://www.intego.com/mac-security-b...rgeted-attack/

+ https://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...?taxonomyId=17

[Noob]

I guess submitting samples to VirusTotal was a good thing, since they all share the samples . . .