New Worm For Apple
Category: Operating Systems, General NewsPosted: June 11, 2009 11:25AM
Author: MrAlex
As the Macintosh increases in popularity, so do the threats to its OS; and it seems that Mac users might be vulnerable to a new worm: Tored-Fam, which is part of the Tored malware family. This new worm is spread via an e-mail attachment, which collects e-mail addresses, and forwards the message on without permission or warning; apart from that, the only symptoms you might get is lag from sending the e-mail to all your contacts. Here is a useful tip for any programmers out there: Members of OSX/Tored-Fam are written in RealBasic and contain strings such as "Infected and boted by OSX.Raedbot". At the moment the cases reported for this worm are low; but expect it to be rising rapidly – so watch out for any suspicious e-mails.
