http://blogs.ict-forward.eu/forward/first-mac-botnet/ blogging on emerging and future threats Mon, 11 May 2009 05:55:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blogs.ict-forward.eu/forward/first-mac-botnet/comment-page-1/#comment-1265 zarras Mon, 11 May 2009 05:55:01 +0000 http://blogs.ict-forward.eu/forward/?p=143#comment-1265 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. 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.

]]> http://blogs.ict-forward.eu/forward/first-mac-botnet/comment-page-1/#comment-1250 sfakiana Sun, 10 May 2009 16:52:29 +0000 http://blogs.ict-forward.eu/forward/?p=143#comment-1250 As far as Mac malware is concerned, an email worm <a href="http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/osxtoreda.html" rel="nofollow">OSX/Tored-A</a> was discovered. According to <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3346" rel="nofollow">ZDNet</a>, the worm propagates through emails, has a backdoor functionality and can be used for botnet creation, keylogging, DDoS attacks and spam mail. Finally, <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10234535-83.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1009_3-0-20" rel="nofollow">cnet</a> predicts that within the next 18 months, Apple will begin recommending that Macintosh users install Internet security software on all systems. 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.

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