Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 22nd Jan 2009 17:52 UTC
"Intego has discovered a new Trojan horse, OSX.Trojan.iServices.A, which is currently circulating in copies of Apple's iWork 09 found on BitTorrent trackers and other sites containing links to pirated software. The version of iWork 09, Apple's productivity suite, are complete and functional, but the installer contains an additional package called iWorkServices.pkg." Update: A new variant has been discovered in a pirated version of Adobe Photoshop CS4, also information about one target of a DDOS attack coming from the trojan.
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"The typical cracked Linux machine is a Server, and it is usually manually cracked. "
. You'd be surprised about how often Linux machines are brute-forced by automated daemons in order to distribute spam and Windows malware. Linux is almost never the end-goal, but rather a way of getting to the Windows machines.
Really? Then there's a hell of a lot of people devoting their life to ssh dictionary attacks on my subnet
I hate Windows and love Linux, but still, I accept there is automated malware for Linux too.. it just tends to not be categorised and hunted in the same way as Windows malware. After all, most Linux boxes have a very good intrusion detection system: a vigilant administrator.
I do think, however, that the OS X/Linux security model itself is more secure than Windows, and helps prevent against serious attacks.