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Mac users: It’s time to be more vigilant about viruses.
Geise said that Macs were particularly affected in this attack because of a vulnerability in the Apple version of Java — the company stopped using Oracle’s releases of Java a couple of years ago, and supports its own versions.
Yet while Oracle had patched the problem with Java that caused this problem months ago, Apple had yet to address the problem until April 3, when it issued a patch for the vulnerability. It then released a second patch on April 5.
“Oracle had patched this but Apple didn’t patch it until very recently,” he said. “Exploits were seen in the wild since around early to mid-March.
That has been a full month of lead time to do bad stuff.”
Several experts have said that this appears to be one of the largest-ever attacks on Macs.
