Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 22, 2009 @03:40PM from the good-reason-not-to-pirate-software dept.

CWmike writes "Pirated copies of Apple's new iWork '09 suite that are now available on file-sharing sites contain a Trojan horse that hijacks Macs and leaves them open to further attack, a security company said yesterday. The 'iServices.a' Trojan hitchhikes on iWork '09's installer, said Intego, which makes Mac security software. 'The installer for the Trojan horse is launched as soon as a user begins the installation of iWork, following the installer's request of an administrator password,' Intego said in a warning. Once installed, the Trojan "phones home" to a malicious server to notify the hacker that the Mac has been compromised, and to await instructions."

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Re:If Apple were evil... by pipingguy · 2009-01-22 17:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why is the latest iTunes update 75MB? My relatively small SSD can't keep up with these bloated patches.
iWork? by thousandinone · 2009-01-22 18:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Somehow, they got the exclamation mark upside down.
Re:Now unveiling... by david@ecsd.com · 2009-01-23 05:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

More like, "Go explain the difference to someone who got hit by one."
Doesn't really matter when your computer's been zombified or your data's been deleted, does it?