Apple iWork Trojan

By Dan Jones in Reader

Posted in Security, Apple on January 23, 2009 at 10:00 am

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Intego has found that a trojan’ed version of iWork 2009 is doing its rounds on the usual Bittorrent places as Pirate software.    Link here to advisory

Installing the software installs the software in question - but also installs a Trojan horse - to quote Intego below:

“The malicious software connects to a remote server over the Internet; this means that a malicious user will be alerted that this Trojan horse is installed on different Macs, and will have the ability to connect to them and perform various actions remotely. The Trojan horse may also download additional components to an infected Mac.”

I admit it, when I wrote my “Security predictions for 2009“, I didn’t expect the 1st prediction to be potentially met by end of January…    I believe his could well become a botnet.

Trojans have been a common risk if you download pirate software for years - so anyone doing this should already be aware of the risks of doing so…. although admittedly Apple users have had it light compared to PC users, with not many being targeted at them.

Is this, as I predicted last year, the first in a wave of attacks aimed at Apple users?

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