New OS X Trojan Horse in the Wild
On June 19th, SecureMac announced that they had discovered multiple versions of a new Trojan in the wild that affects Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5.
The Trojan horse is currently being distributed from a hacker website, where discussion has taken place on distributing the Trojan horse through iChat and Limewire. The source code for the Trojan horse has been distributed, indicating an increased probability of future variants of the Trojan horse.
It will run hidden on the system, and allows a malicious user complete remote access to the system, can transmit system and user passwords, and can avoid detection by opening ports in the firewall and turning off system logging.
Until a patch is issued for the Apple Remote Desktop Agent exploit, SecureMac classifies the security risk presented by this Trojan horse as high.
Protection: To protect your system against this threat, run MacScan 2.5.2 (MacScan is a product of SecureMac) with the latest Spyware Definitions update (2008011), dated June 19th, 2008. SecureMac recommends that users download files only from trusted sources and sites. (Other vendors have also updated their virus scanners.)
Note: as a Trojan it requires active participation by the Mac user.
Get more details here.
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