decepticon_eazy_e Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Symantec has found what seems to be the first ALL Mac botnet. I'm loving this, I'm going to forward this to all my Mac buddies. Turns out the Mac isn't invulnerable to viruses and hackers!! http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3157 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullArray Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Symantec has found what seems to be the first ALL Mac botnet. I'm loving this, I'm going to forward this to all my Mac buddies. Turns out the Mac isn't invulnerable to viruses and hackers!! http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3157 Winners don't do warez. That's the moral of the story..., when one authorizes an unscrupulous cracked installer to have system level access, something bad is bound to happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sablefoxx Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 yeah read about this on slashdot, it was pretty common knowledge that those versions of CS4/iWork were infected. so im not that surprised that they started dos'ing site with it. a ton of people downloaded the infected iWork, to my knowledge this trojan is reasonably stealthy so most infected people don't even know. bottom line, never give root access to an untrusted source Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 This one is really bothering me. Its not really a virus because you cannot fight it (e.g. with an ANTI-virus). To lock down against botnets you have to either disable the ability to launch commands or the ability to access the internet. Which both basically render a system useless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seshan Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 That's why I download legal trials and just use serials ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingleBerries Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Lol even though there are safe guards in place, root prompt, people are steal(c wat i did thar?) greedy enough to let it do what ever it wants just so then can xray some boobies. In any case I hope to see more MAC virii pop up in the coming year, it would be great to see a nice iPhone or Winmo worm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Sorry to disappoint, its not an all Mac OSX botnet, about 40% of the machine currently receiving commands a Vista. Its not the same infection, but they are being controlled by the same control server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr0p Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Lol even though there are safe guards in place, root prompt, people are steal(c wat i did thar?) greedy enough to let it do what ever it wants just so then can xray some boobies. In any case I hope to see more MAC virii pop up in the coming year, it would be great to see a nice iPhone or Winmo worm. Very possible, a guy at Pwn2Own this year had an iPhone 0day but wasn't willing to part with it for $10k so it might be getting sold somewhere else ;p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullArray Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 This isn't a Mac virus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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