Apple squashes kernel bug used by TriangleDB spyware

Whoever is infecting people's iPhones with the TriangleDB spyware may be targeting macOS computers with similar malware, according to Kaspersky researchers. In the security shop's ongoing analysis of the smartphone snooping campaign – during which attackers exploit a kernel vulnerability to obtain root privileges and install …

[that one in the corner]

populateWithFieldsMacOSOnly

How come the malware people manage to get decent programmers who know how to use meaningful names when some of us start to feel grateful if we get a CalcVal()?

I bet they even use naming conventions so you can at a glance if a line of code is using static, global, local or member variables!

[big_D]

Re: populateWithFieldsMacOSOnly

That was all programming 101, when I learnt programming, back in the 80s.

Only on primitive BASIC versions, which only supported single letter variables was that not the case.

[Anonymous Coward]

Personal belief

Whenever the NSA and friends accuse some other state-sponsored agency of malicious intent -- I believe them.

OTOH

Whenever the FSB and friends accuse some other state-sponsored agency of malicious intent -- I believe them.

...

and so on.