Mac attack

Sandi over at the Spyware Sucks blog pointed to this thread on Apple’s Mac forums, indicating that some Mac users have been victims of a web-based malware attack:

This has happened to me twice now, on two separate computers at work. My clipboard has been hijacked with this:

[potentially dangerous URL removed]

And once it’s in the clipboard, I can’t copy anything else over it until I’ve restarted the machine.

Several other users reported similar attacks, whether they were using Safari or Firefox as their browser.

[Update 8/19: There are also reports of this issue from users of Ubuntu, a popular distribution of Linux.]

This is a good reminder that users of operating systems other than Windows are not immune to malware or social engineering.