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06-24-2008, 11:39 PM
|  | Too Loud! Too Bright! | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence
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| | | Two Apple Trojans Threaten users
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Two Mac viruses were discovered over the weekend. SecureMac and Intego Security reported that Trojans in the wild have the potential to cause serious damage to Mac desktops. One comes wrapped in a poker application and the second, and more nefarious, takes advantage of the ARDAgent.
The ARDAgent allows the virus to execute code as root when it is run on a machine. The ARDAgent virus has the setuid bit. According to Intego, "Users running such an executable [allows the virus to] gain the privileges of the user who owns that executable." In this case, ARDAgent is owned by root, allowing the virus to run code without first entering a password.
ARDAgent can be invoked to execute shell commands through AppleScript.
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According to Intego, "The Trojan in question is a shell script encapsulated in an application, and is distributed in a 65 KB Zip archive; unzipped, it is 180 KB."
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06-25-2008, 12:12 AM
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06-25-2008, 12:20 AM
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| | | Ahhhh, more ammo for the mac fanboys.
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06-25-2008, 12:21 AM
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: 67 th | | | as the Mac gets more market share, we'll see more and more attempts at haxoring into it. its almost a badge of honor to be targeted by this type of thing. |
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Two Trojans For Mac OS X Users...
One for you, one for your partner.
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06-25-2008, 05:54 AM
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06-25-2008, 08:15 AM
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| | | Was only a matter of time. I expect this to only increase.
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06-25-2008, 09:45 AM
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06-25-2008, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Craig  | wow. your spin just took my head clean off.
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