AUGD: Re: Augd Digest, Vol 6, Issue 70
AUGD: Re: Augd Digest, Vol 6, Issue 70
- Subject: AUGD: Re: Augd Digest, Vol 6, Issue 70
- From: admin <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:45:39 -0500
This came out a while ago as a fake download for iWork 09. When people
double clicked the fake iWork installer, it asked for their password,
then it installed some kind of VNC client that a bad guy somewhere could
connect to.
The anti virus companies have tried to get this one in the news several
times. I guess sales weren't good enough from the first scare tactic.
I always get a kick out of fee based anti-virus software companies that
are the first to discover a virus, and this isn't even a virus. But if
yoy have to steal software, you're on your own, as far as I'm concerned.
If you try to steal software illegally, you deserve what you get. Don't
steal, you won't get it, simple as that.
Ben Balser, ACT
www.slfcpug.org
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:43:10 EDT
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Subject: AUGD: Ahoy all ye pirates - New Mac Trojan for you?
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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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