Filed under: Security, Macintosh
First Mac OS X trojan in the wild
by Jordan Running Feb 16th 2006
It was nothing if not inevitable: Mac Rumors
is reporting that the first virus targeting Mac OS X has been spotted in the wild. The site is
careful to classify the virus as a trojan because it doesn't exploit any hole in the OS but instead tricks the victim
into executing it. The trojan spreads by masquerading as an archive called "latestpics.tgz" containing
screenshots of OS X 10.5 Leopard. The archive contains a files presents themselves with a standards JPEG icon but is in
fact an executable that, when opened, infects other executable files on the machine. Once executed, the trojan spreads
itself via iChat. Sophos has named the virus "OSX/Leap-A" and given it a low prevalence rating.[Via Waxy.org]
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