End of Innocence – Mac Trojan Horse in the wild
It seems that overzealous freeloaders have cause the proliferation of a fairly nasty Trojan Horse in the OSX community. It’s currently available in the Pirated Torrents for Apple’s new iWork`09. The only known cure: Format and Reinstall. Two words that I never thought I’ld hear from the Mac community.
Intego has discovered a new Trojan horse, OSX.Trojan.iServices.A, which is currently circulating in copies of Apple’s iWork 09 found on BitTorrent trackers and other sites containing links to pirated software.
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The malicious software connects to a remote server over the Internet; this means that a malicious user will be alerted that this Trojan horse is installed on different Macs, and will have the ability to connect to them and perform various actions remotely. The Trojan horse may also download additional components to an infected Mac
via Intego Security Alert – Mac Trojan Horse OSX.Trojan.iServices.A Found in Pirated Apple iWork 09.
