Pinhead or HellRTS? What’s in a name?
Mac malware is making the headlines again – this time in the form of a remote access trojan which has been given the name OSX/HellRTS.D by French security firm Intego.
The folks at Intego blogged about the new Mac threat they discovered, which when run on a Mac OS X computer can allow remote hackers to gain access.
Users of Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac are protected, as we detect the malware as OSX/Pinhead-B, but presently it looks like this is not considered a serious threat and we have received no reports of infections from customers.
It does, however, appear to have been distributed disguised as iPhoto, the photo application which ships on modern Mac computers. This is…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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