First Mac OS X Botnet Appears On The Web

Researchers have pointed out the emergence of what could be referred to as the world’s first ever Mac OS X botnet, which inflicts infected systems to trigger denial of service attacks.  Alfredo Pesoli and Mario Ballano Barcena notified that the malware was discovered back in January, when the security firm Intego cautioned about a Trojan horse concealed in the trial iteration of iWork’09’ application, which was doing rounds in peer-to-peer...