More Pirated Mac Software Besieged by Malware

Category: Bugs / Virus
Posted: January 26, 2009 11:50AM
Author: Nemo

When pirated versions of iWork '09 hit the the torrents last week folks soon discovered an added payload in the form of the OSX.Trojan.iServices.A Trojan. Now a new variant, cleverly named OSX.Trojan.iServices.B, is affected more pirated Mac software. According to security firm Intego the new Trojan is targeting versions of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and comes in the crack program users run to be able to use the pirated version of the software. The Trojan installs a backdoor, then requests an administrator password and starts the backdoor application with root privileges. It also makes contact with a pair of IP addresses which means someone out there will know when the malware is installed and could possibly download additional software to the infected Mac.

Genius move by apple.

Umm... Apple didn't do this.

There's no proof either way. In any case, what happened to Macs not having viruses? This seems like a pretty damn powerful one.

I'm not one of those users that subscribe to the whole Mac's don't get viruses... however, this isn't one that exploits flaws in the OS as are common with most MS viruses... it simply relies on user stupidity to gain access to the OS. Anyone infected with this virus, or the one that was in the pirated version of iWork, deserves what they got.