Mac OS X e-mail worm squirming

From ZDNet (Dancho Danchev)
A newly discovered email worm dubbed OSX/Tored-A once again puts the spotlight on the potential worm-ability, and malware spreading tactics targeting Apple’s OS X.
The worm propagates through emails harvested from infected hosts, and has a backdoor functionality allowing its author to perform the following actions if a successful remote connection is established – attempts to create a botnet, has keylogging functionality, and can also perform DDoS attacks as well as send spam. Read the full story [zdnet.com]

From ZDNet (Dancho Danchev)

A newly discovered email worm dubbed OSX/Tored-A once again puts the spotlight on the potential worm-ability, and malware spreading tactics targeting Apple’s OS X.

The worm propagates through emails harvested from infected hosts, and has a backdoor functionality allowing its author to perform the following actions if a successful remote connection is established – attempts to create a botnet, has keylogging functionality, and can also perform DDoS attacks as well as send spam. Read the full story [zdnet.com]

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