First botnet based on Apple computers

Security experts from Symantec company inform of appearance of the first botnet, which structure includes computers under control of Apple Mac OS X operating system.

The analysis has shown that creation of new zombie network, named iBotnet, has started in January. The structure of the botnet includes computers infected with malicious program OSX.iServices. This trojan was distributed as an utility for removal of copy protection of pirated versions of Photoshop CS4 and iWork ‘ 09.
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