Monday, April 20, 2009

First Mac botnet found

Researchers have found malware in pirated copies of Apple's iWork ’09 and Adobe Photoshop CS4. What's worse, the malware has created the first botnet for Macs.

The Mac OS has been overdue for malware attention by hackers and "safe" only due to much lower market share than IBM-clone PCs. Mac users can expect to see more such attacks.

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