This was reported on earlier, the iWork infection etc. Are you saying that collectively all the security companies and various freelance security 'experts' have gotten together and made this up?
We saw at the last two cansecwest conferences that os x was no more and in some cases less secure then windows. One of the security researches who took down the macs (and also uses macs as his main machine) said Apple has laid down far less hoops to jump through when trying to compromise security. The article does mention root access, but it doesn't need root access to run. Also don't forget that there are a number of mac users who actually do like to play around on their system, download cracked torrents and generally get into the deeper areas of OS X. I know them, for years on IRC. Reading the comments to the linked article it's easy to tell this is the case. Once again, for this thing to run, it doesn't need root access, only an account on 24/7 with access to the web etc. Hit a couple torrent sites, search for mac software, you'll find a lot of mac users downloading. On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:32 AM, betty <[email protected]> wrote: > Panic? Don't panic. More fake vulnerabilities, this time from ZDNet. Where > is that botnet? Is it in Symantec labs? > > Yawn! This article says this supposed trojan needs to run as root. On all > Macs, root is disabled by default. How many people know how to enable the > root account on a Mac, have done so, and would be foolish enough to provide > the root password to software they > downloaded from a source that's known for malware? > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Zombie Macs Launch DoS Attack > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:33:07 -0400 > From: Kurt T > > ZDNet has a story (and several related articles) about how Symantec > has discovered evidence of an all-Mac based botnet that is actively > involved in a DoS (denial of service) attack. Apparently, security on > the exploited Macs (aka "iBots"?) was compromised when users > bit-torrented pirated copies of iWork '09 and Photoshop CS4 that > contained malware. > > From the article: '...this is the 'first real attempt to create a Mac > botnet' and the zombie Macs are already being used for nefarious > purposes." > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3157 > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
