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November 2, 2007

Fake Codec is Mac OS X Trojan

Filed under: Apple/Mac, MacHack, Slashdot Story — Jason Jeffrey @ 3:05 pm

Apple SucksStraight from Slashdot: “Multiple news organisations are reporting on an in-the-wild Mac OS X malware attack that uses porn lures to plant phishing Trojans on Mac machines. The attack site attempts to trick users into download a disk image (.dmg) file disguised as a codec that’s required for viewing the video. If the Mac machine’s browser is set to to open ‘Safe’ files after downloading, the .dmg gets mounted and the Installer is launched. The target must click through a series of screens to become infected but once the Trojan is installed, it has full control of the machine.”

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