Trojan Masked as Game Deletes a File for Every Alien Killed
Security expert Symantec has discovered what it refers to as an OSX.Loosemaque threat cleverly disguised as a classic video and targeting unsuspecting Mac users. Trojan.Loosemaque is designed to look like a Space Invaders/Galaga style game that deletes a file from your home directory, for every alien ship you destroy.
“[...] A Mac game performing malicious activities? That’s something relatively new,” Ben Nahorney writes on the Symantec blog. “Takashi Katsuki, one of our Tokyo engineers, came across just that today. The game looks to be a throw-back to the classic Space Invaders/Galaga style of games from the early 1980s. However, what brings this game into the realm of malicious code is that for every alien ship you destroy, the game deletes a file from your home directory,” the security firm explains. Symantec has also posted a video of the new Trojan horse targeting Mac users in action.
