New OS X Backdoor Malware Roping Macs Into Botnet

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 2, 2014 @12:23AM from the sad-face-mac dept.

An anonymous reader writes New malware targeting Mac machines, opening backdoors on them and roping them into a botnet currently numbering around 17,000 zombies has been spotted. The malware, dubbed Mac.BackDoor.iWorm, targets computers running OS X and makes extensive use of encryption in its routines, Dr. Web researchers noted. What's even more interesting is that it gets the IP address of a valid command and control (C&C) server from a post on popular news site Reddit. The malware is capable of discovering what other software is installed on the machine, opening a port on it, and sending a query to a web server to acquire the addresses of the C&C servers.

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I have seen some malware trying to infect my Mac by ruir · 2014-10-02 00:44 · Score: 5, Interesting

And to get it you have to be fairly dumb. Fake sites for subtitles that just propagate your google query to "match" the name of the film you are search, and instead of giving you a zip with the subtitle, return a dmg file. But then, you have to click on it, click to install the binary, and give a password....So as I say you have to be pretty stupid to install the malware yourself.