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Monday, April 20, 2009

Symantec spots first Mac botnet

by Thomas De Maesschalck April 20 2009

Symantec security researchers have detected the first Mac botnet. Trojans in pirated versions of applications like the iWork 09 suite and Adobe PhotoShop CS4 are to blame for this one. After the torrent-ed copy of iWork 09 is installed, two new services OSX.Iservice and OSX.Iservice.B also get installed as start up item and gain root level privileges. These two services use different method to obtain a Mac user's password and then take control of the machine.

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