Looks like Apple’s fight with malware on Mac OS X is not ending any time soon. It has been discovered that new piece of malware, called LuckyCat trojan for Mac is infecting computers through Microsoft Word documents. Only recently Apple won the battle against flashback trojan for Mac, which has been around since September 2011. As it turns out, flashback trojan is now the least of Apple’s worries regarding malware infecting Mac OS X computers, around the world.
Before I begin to explain what LuckyCat trojan for Mac is all about, let’s put things in to perspective. Apple has time and again boasted that it’s operating system is free from malware and spyware that are dominant on Windows powered computers. However in recent months we’ve seen quite a few, not to mention potentially harmful, malware crop up for Mac OS X powered computers. The flashback trojan alone infected over 600,000 Macs globally. I implore you that you first check if your device is infected by flashback and then follow our guide to remove flashback trojan from Mac.
Only day before yesterday Apple rolled out a software update for Mac that fixed flashback trojan. Today, Costin Raiu of Kaspersky Labs reports his latest finding dubbed LuckyCat torjan for Mac. He claims that this bot can be controlled by a remote user who can not only gain access to your system, but also lift files and folders from the on-board storage of your Mac computer. Needless to say this threat is really serious.
Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a spreads by virtue of a Java exploit on any given Mac computer. The malware then rapidly spreads throughout the system via Microsoft Word files in which the vulnerability CVE-2009-0563 is exploited. Costin further adds that the LuckyCat trojan for Mac stayed dormant for over six weeks on the device he was testing, before it started doing it’s devious deeds. It really can’t be said for sure that the possibility of a Mac computer to get infected by LuckyCat trojan depends on whether or not Microsoft Word or Office is installed on it. The backdoor in question initially infiltrates through a Java exploit which then spreads through Word documents.
It is expected that more versions of LuckyCat trojan for Mac will be released in the near future. Apple is yet to give a statement on this issue, but something tells me that work has already begun at One Infinite Loop for damage control. Let’s just hope this trojan is taken care of before it spreads around thousands of devices and puts a lot of people and their information in danger.
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