First known Mac botnet distributed as Trojan
A piece of malicious software unwittingly shared over a peer-to-peer network in January was the key tool in what security researchers are saying was the first known attempt to create a botnet of Mac computers.
Researchers at Symantec say the Trojan, called OSX.Iservice, hid itself in pirated versions of the Apple application iWork ‘09 and the Mac version of Adobe Photoshop CS4 that were shared on a popular peer-to-peer bittorrent network.
SecureMac has released a tool to remove the Trojan, and can be downloaded from here.
Via: cbc.ca
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