David Marcus
Director, Security Research
Dave Marcus currently serves as Director of Security Research for McAfee® Labs, focusing on bringing McAfee’s ...
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There has been a bit of chatter today about the first ever Mac-based botnet. This piece of malware actually appeared back in January of this year.
Quite frankly there is not any functionality in this “bot” (some would simply call it a remote access trojan but let’s not split hairs OK!!) that we have not seen before. The only thing of concern here is that it does affect the Mac platform which certainly is fresh territory.
As we had discussed in our previous blog, it is spread through pirated software at this point (a huge No, No anyway) so hopefully distribution will be light and not result in a large numbers. It definitely does highlight the need for security software regardless of platform!
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