[Slump Tester]

!7,000? Wow - they got all of them!

[TomGuy]

worm — Apple

hmmmm

[Mastador1]

BLASPHEMER! Thou shalt not disparage the Apple, the Apple is great, the Apple is perfection, all others are simply as radishes before the mighty Apple!

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Nah, that can’t possibly be true! All Mac users say that Macs are invulnerable to malicious attacks!

Well, at least, that is what I have read on all of the PC/Mac threads!

ROFL

[palmer]

Dr. Web has released information on the clever way it connects

It connects to a fixed web address? Bzzt.

Given the small number of macs involved, this was probably accomplished by simple phishing. Whether the bot is persistent is a separate question, I rarely reboot my mac.

[molson209]

No matter what OS ,if you don’t Update your screwed

[minnesota_bound]

Reddit is the site the stolen nude celeb photos were released on.
There was an article here yesterday about flashlight apps spying on you thru your cellphone.

Most apps want permission to gather all your information so any app could do this. I wonder if this is how the photos were able to be stolen from their phones (along with who knows how many others) then released on the internet.

[reg45]

This vulnerability will probably be eliminated in the next release of OSX (Yosemite) later this year.

[Whenifhow]

FYI

[ShadowAce]

[for-q-clinton]

I still don’t believe it. Swordmaker guaranteed us this is impossible on OSX.

We will just have to wait to see how we can blame the users for this issue.

[Swordmaker]

I am VERY skeptical of this report. . . Dr..Web has reported finding a 17,000 member Mac botnet ( how do they EVEN know the number of infected Macs????) created by a new, never before seen "OSX iWorm" that they do not report how it works or how it can infect an OSX Mac. No other security company has seen this botnet or malware!

This is the same Dr. Web that a couple of years ago reported a 680,000 Macbot determined by the number of the UUIDs they claimed had connected into a "Honeypot intercept server." But no one has ever found a Mac member of that Dr. Web reported Botnet in the wild. The botnet ran on Java, which is platform agnostic, but Dr. Web only claim OSX was infected, and the modality required visiting an obscure Russian role play game character creation website to get infected, yet 95% of the claimed infections were in the US. Say what? The UUIDs they had listed in the Mac Botnet included UUIDs assigned to Apple for Macs that never had Java installed, had not yet been sold, or not yet even manufactured! The release of that Macbot claim coincided with the Release of Dr. Web's announcement of their entering the Mac antivirus market for business.

We are now entering the three week FUD SEASON before the October 21st Apple event where it is expected that Apple will announce new Macs. . . and Dr. Web is still pushing its business AV software. I remain VERY suspicious. — PING!

Apple Security Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[dennisw]

They should use these hacked computers to nuke Apple HQ in Cupertino. To nuke it from orbit. Nuke the Chinese FoxConn factory too...just to be sure...and to prevent further suicides on the iPhone assembly line

[bravo whiskey]

BUT, BUT, BUT Macs are perfect

[Swordmaker]

It is as I thought. . . According to researchers, the so called OSX "iWorm" is nothing more than a TROJAN horse application. In this case being spread by the downloading of PIRATE SOFTWARE such as pirated Photoshop CC 2014, which carries the installer of the Trojan along in the installation Torrents of the illegal unlicensed software. It is not a virus. . . nor, as I wrote earlier, could Dr. Web know the number of "infected" Macs.

If you did not download pirated Mac software and install it, you were not at risk of contracting this Trojan.

Contrary to the claims of articles headlines, there is no intrinsic flaw in OSX being exploited by this malware. Instead, the intrinsic psychological fault, dear Mac users, is in ourselves, that some of us are tempted by "free" commercial software through piracy.

As of yesterday, Apple has added the signature of all three versions of this Trojan to their automatic system which has been automatically added to your OSX system and will now block the download, installation, or running of any application containing the Trojan code, warning the user of its presence. — PING!

Apple Mac Trojan Security Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[TheStickman]

So 17,000 morons let someone gave someone in their home, gave them their password and let them type it into their computer & then allowed them to go to whatever website to catch a worm and allow their computer to be controlled by someone else?

FUD.