New Mac Trojan Installs Silently, No Password Required

An anonymous reader writes "A new Mac OS X Trojan referred to as OSX/Crisis silently infects OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and OS X 10.7 Lion. The backdoor component calls home to the IP address 176.58.100.37 every five minutes, awaiting instructions. The threat was created in a way that is intended to make reverse engineering more difficult, an added extra that is more common with Windows malware than it is with Mac malware."

Comments

cool ... good that I use OS 10.5

[acidfast7]

how about an article on every windows- or android-based trojan.

Re:cool ... good that I use OS 10.5

[courteaudotbiz]

because PC refers to windows viruses

PC means personal computer and makes no reference whatsoever to the operating system running on it.

Wrong. When apple did their "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" marketing campaing, it was perfectly clear they referred to Windows against OSX. They specifically insisted that a Mac and a PC are different, but the geeks we are know that PCs and Macs are almost the same on their hardware base. So what they referred to was about the OS they run.

AND I AM NOT AN APPLE FANBOY! I have no Mac computers, no iPods, no iPhone

Re:But Macs Don't Get Viruses

[Anubis IV]

They don't, but you can't fix stupid, which is what trojans exploit.

User mode malware

[tlhIngan]

It seems more and more these days, that malware is becoming user-mode to avoid the nasty popups that comes with trying to gain administrator mode.

Which makes sense as a lot of stuff you need to do as malware can be done strictly as usermode without needing to get admin priviledges. This one apparently checks to see if it can get admin or running in a restricted user account.

So even malware these days are learning to be friendly and compatible with users who aren't admins and not requiring admin for everything.

Re:Macs don't get viruses.

[Khyber]

My geek cred is with regards to optoelectronic horticulture tech, not Linux.

Slashdot ain't all computer geeks, yanno. Some of us keep you fed for cheap.