Two new pieces of Mac malware surface
Two new pieces of malware for Apple computers have been found in the wild according to security firm Sophos.
The first, Tored-Fam, is a worm that spreads via email attachments and is simply a variant on the well known Tored family of malware that has been in circulation since last year. The worm collects email addresses and attempts to forward itself on.
Analysis if the worm’s source code by Sophos suggests it is being used to build a Mac botnet dubbed Raedbot. This is being assembled by a malware writer dubbed Ag_Raed, who is based in Tunisia. The second piece of malware is a Trojan called Jahlav-C which is embedded in an apparent pornography site online. It masquerades as an Activex video codec that needs to be downloaded in order to run the site’s content.
