Backdoor Trojan For Windows Ported To Mac OS

An anonymous reader writes "A Remote Access Trojan (RAT) for Windows, known as darkComet, has been ported to Mac OS X. The new backdoor Trojan is not yet finished, but it could be indicative of more underground programmers attempting to take advantage of Apple's growing market share."

Comments

Re:It was just a matter of time

[benwiggy]

I'm still not convinced by the "market share" argument. The traditional rebuff is that Mac OS 9 had more malware than OS X, despite a smaller market share.

There may well be large gaping holes in Mac security. The question is: why is no one exploiting them? I don't mean winning a competition, but maliciously or criminally using them.

At what percentage of market share does it become viable to start writing malware? 25%? 50%? 75%?

Regardless of percentage, there are reckoned to be c. 94 million OS X users. Is that still not enough? As we all know, Mac users are computer illiterates with far more money than sense. Surely this sector would seem ideal for targeting by malware writers?

Assuming the reason for the lack of malware is NOT the inherent robustness of the OS; and it's NOT the market share: then what IS it?

Re:It was just a matter of time

[ModernGeek]

Not to mention that face that GP didn't even take into account that MacOS 9, with a much smaller deployment base than MacOS X, had TONS of viruses for it. Deployment base != Infection rate. If this were the case, Linux Servers would be riddled with viruses. I'm pretty sure the GP is a troll, his last sentence is a troll within itself.