Australian security outfit Pure Hacking says it’s discovered a zero-day bug in Skype that allows hackers to gain control of Mac OS X machines by sending an instant message.
Gordon Maddern says he discovered the bug quite by accident, after mistakenly sending a payload for one of his clients to a colleague via Skype.
“I decided to investigate a little further and found that the Windows and Linux clients were not vulnerable. It was only the Mac Skype client that seemed to be affected,” he says. “So I decided to test another Mac and sent the payload to my girlfriend. She wasn’t too happy with me as it also left the her Skype unusable for several days.”
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