AUGD: Re: New Mac Trojan for you?
AUGD: Re: New Mac Trojan for you?
- Subject: AUGD: Re: New Mac Trojan for you?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:10:38 EDT
Real or imagined, or just trumpeted by companys to sell more antivirus software, its one good way to scare folks away from pirating software, eh?
That's why I I directed the message to "all ye pirates." Thank goodness that's not you, me, or anyone we know, eh?
Gary
Gary
(just the messenger)
In a message dated 4/23/09 9:03:59 AM, email@hidden writes:
no one outside of symantec has recreated this... or confirmed.
marketing, sales gimmick, or potential threat. I'll give this issue more consideration when i hear from parties without an economic interest.
john
On Apr 23, 2009, at 8:43 AM, email@hidden wrote:
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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