iThreats

Interesting to read as published in  ZDNet Australia

Apple has removed an old item from its support site late Tuesday in the US that urged Mac customers to use multiple antivirus utilities and this week said the Mac is safe “out of the box”. 

Are you sure? Just search around the net you’ll find bunch of Mac users got infected with DNSChanger aka “RSPlug”. And today, I received new sample (still for analysis) but Intego already published awareness. [Read Here] It’s funny the author named its malicious script intego as shown in the code as “begin 666 intego”.

‘got this email … 

Further reading: 

http://community.ca.com/blogs/securityadvisor/

http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2008/12/03/christmas-worm-uses-mcdonalds-and-coca-cola-as-bait/ 

http://blog.trendmicro.com/bogus-mcdonalds-coca-cola-promos-used-as-worm-carriers/