The Dawn of OSX Worms – Renepo/Leap-A

2004 and 2006 A few years after the release of OS X, 2004 brought a new shell script worm called Renepo. The worm’s main goal was to disable Mac OS X’s firewall and security settings. It also installed tools for password-sniffing and made key system directories world-writeable, undetected. The wo...