Thursday, June 11, 2009

Two New Attacks for OSX Surface

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Security experts have discovered two new attacks targeting Mac users, a new version of a worm and a Trojan hidden inside a porn site (which I will not name or go to).

On Tuesday Paretologic warned about a porn site downloading malware that targets both Windows and OSX. Mac users get redirected to pagemac.php that downloads a QuickTime.dmg file.

"As we've demonstrated before, and as we'll no doubt explain again, the Mac malware threat is real,"writes Sophos security researcher Graham CluleyHackers are deliberately planting malicious code on Web sites, and using social engineering tricks to fool you into installing it onto your computer."

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