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Fake Codec is Mac OS X Trojan

Posted by Zonk on from the search-safely dept.

Kenny A. writes "Multiple news organisations are reporting on an in-the-wild Mac OS X malware attack that uses porn lures to plant phishing Trojans on Mac machines. The attack site attempts to trick users into download a disk image (.dmg) file disguised as a codec that's required for viewing the video. If the Mac machine's browser is set to to open 'Safe' files after downloading, the .dmg gets mounted and the Installer is launched. The target must click through a series of screens to become infected but once the Trojan is installed, it has full control of the machine."

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  1. Re:It begins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And by finally I assume you mean that Apple finally has succeeded in luring the coveted dimwit market to its products.

  2. But does it matter? by khasim · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Right now you have to convince people to install the trojan.

    Okay, that will give you X% of all the Mac users out there.

    Then what? How do you increase X?

    With Windows, the trojans scan the hard drive for email addresses and send out links to every address it can find. That depends upon unpatched exploits in IE or you having friends who are as dumb as you.

    If the same happens here ... I don't see the growth rate being above the disinfection rate.