AUGD: Ahoy all ye pirates - New Mac Trojan for you?
AUGD: Ahoy all ye pirates - New Mac Trojan for you?
- Subject: AUGD: Ahoy all ye pirates - New Mac Trojan for you?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:43:10 EDT
Forewarned is forearmed.
Quoting researchers at Symantec, CBC News reports that the first ever bot network of Macintosh computers has been spotted. Moreover, these zombies were infected with the OSX.Iservice (iService) Trojan, which was the payload delivered by illegal copies of Apple iWork ‘09 and Adobe Photoshop CS 4 downloaded from peer-to-peer file sharing networks.
“OSX.Iservice is an interesting piece of malware—not only does it make use of Mac OS internals, but it is also the first Mac botnet that we are aware of,” said Mario Barcena and Alfredo Pesoli, researchers, Symantec Ireland. “With malware authors showing an increasing interest in the Mac platform, we believe that more advanced [user interface] spoofing tricks may be seen in the future.”
source: http://mac.blorge.com/2009/04/17/the-ibot-network-attacks-nothing-will-ever-be-the-same/
Gary Kampel
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