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New Mac OS X Trojan Hides Inside PDFs
Trailrunner7 contributes this snippet from ThreatPost: "Malware that targets Mac OS X isn't anywhere near catching up to Windows-based malware in terms of volume and variety, but it seems that OS X malware may be adopting some of the more successful tactics that Windows viruses have been using to trick users. Researchers have come across a sample of an OS X-based Trojan that disguises itself as a PDF file, a technique that's been in favor among Windows malware authors for several years now."
This isn't a virus. It doesn't propagate; it's not even capable of communicating with its server once installed, so it's another one of these annual proof-of-concept social engineering attacks that anonymous Apple-haters latch onto and then promptly forget about a day later.