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Tsunami – Backdoor Trojan for Mac OS X Discovered

28-October-201129-October-2011 Prasanna Sherekar

OSX/Tsunami.A, an IRC controlled backdoor Trojan for Mac OS X, has been discovered that enables the infected machine to become a bot for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The analyzed sample contains a hardcoded list of IRC servers and channel that it attempts to connect to. This client then listens and interprets commands from […]

BlackHole RAT Beta – Mac OS X Trojan Horse

27-February-201128-February-2011 Prasanna Sherekar

BlackHole is a variant of a well-known Remote Access Trojan (RAT) for Windows known as darkComet. “Hello, Im the BlackHole Remote Administration Tool. I am a Trojan Horse, so i have infected your Mac Computer. I know, most people think Macs can’t be infected, but look, you ARE Infected! I have full controll over your […]