Peaches Posted November 5, 2010 Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 Java Worm Targets Mac OS X SecureMac has discovered a new trojan horse in the wild that affects Mac OS X, including Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), the latest version of OS X. The trojan horse, trojan.osx.boonana.a, is spreading through social networking sites, including Facebook, disguised as a video. The trojan is currently appearing as a link in messages on social networking sites with the subject "Is this you in this video?" It was just a matter of time, due to the popularity of Macs in recent years, before we'd see more malware targeting these systems. How prolific and common these types of attacks become only time will tell. It is interesting to me that attackers have determined its worth their effort to create, as the Java component of this Trojan is, cross platform code that can infect both Windows and OS X users. Full details - http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/10/java_worm_targe.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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