Researchers at Symantec found two hidden trojans – OSX.Iservice and OSX.Iservice.B – in pirated copies of Apple Computer’s iWork ’09 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 posted on some P2P networks, which use different techniques to obtain the user’s password and take control of the infected Mac machine.
The author of the malware downloaded the original/trial versions of each program and introduced a copy of the malicious binary into the packages. Users who then downloaded and installed the applications from the torrent download would become infected. It is estimated that so far thousands of people have downloaded the malicious torrent files.
So, Mac users be aware of which files you download and according to Symantec “Users are advised to install Norton Internet Security for Macintosh” !!
Sources: ZDNet, The Register
As far as Mac malware is concerned, an email worm OSX/Tored-A was discovered. According to ZDNet, the worm propagates through emails, has a backdoor functionality and can be used for botnet creation, keylogging, DDoS attacks and spam mail. Finally, cnet predicts that within the next 18 months, Apple will begin recommending that Macintosh users install Internet security software on all systems.
Also discovered a new Mac OS X email worm. According to ZDnet the worm propagates through emails harvested from infected hosts, and has a backdoor functionality allowing its author to perform the following actions if a successful remote connection is established – attempts to create a botnet, has keylogging functionality, and can also perform DDoS attacks as well as send spam.