Mac Keyloggers Are Alive And Well

I often hear from the Mac users that Macs don't need to worry about viruses, keyloggers, and their kin and they point to their rock-solid FreeBSD core as proof. While I agree that OS X is far more secure than its popular counter-part, as OS X becomes more popular the malware writers will begin to target Macs. The worst badware of them all is the keylogger: if one ever gets installed on your machine you could have all your passwords cherry picked in no time!

Keyloggers are indeed becoming more popular, and they are already available on Mac. Simple Google query returns huge number of results both organic and advertised.

While these programs can be used for legitimate purposes, the technology is there and it can easily be embedded into a popular software.

With P2P/BitTorrent networks it is easy to find, modify, and then redistribute a popular open source product, shareware program, even the sneak peek preview of the operating system.