Trouble is, these botnets don't need root to run.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Matthew Taylor
<taylorsmatt...@gmail.com>wrote:
> This is what is known in the UNIX world as an "honor virus". You have to
> put in place software you know to be illegitimate and give it administrative
> access to install, or do something otherwise known to be self destructive.
>
> If I were dumb enough to do this I could discover that shock of shock my
> enterprise heavily firewalled role restricted servers are vulnerable.
>
> Got root / admin + malware = got security issue.
>
> Matthew
>
>
> On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) wrote:
>
> Mac owners who downloaded pirated ("free") versions of iWork '09 and
>> Photoshop CS4 - said to be 20,000 downloads - also received the
>> iServices trojan. The trojan has reportedly begun to activate for DSS
>> attacks. Details:
>> <http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/17/mac.based.botnet.active/>
>>
>> Don't much pity those who d/l pirated software, but it is disturbing to
>> see OS X vulnerabilities exploited (even though this trojan requires
>> human stupidity to actually install it).
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Mark Snyder
>>
>
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