First Tiger Trojan: Mac/Cowhand-A?
My money is on this being another proof-of-concept design, but Sophos is listing a new Mac Trojan, dubbed Mac/Cowhand-A, which lets other people gain control of your Mac: "Mac/Cowhand-A is a proxy Trojan for the Mac OSX platform. The Trojan may copy itself to the user's Preferences folder. In order to run itself on startup, the Trojan may add itself to the user's Startup Items." It's supposedly a Tiger trojan (say that three times fast), but it's listed on the low-end of Sophos's prevalence chart.
The Chicken Littles among you may want to update all your virus software, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Sophos is trying to gain some attention / sell some security. Why do I post about this then? Why, as an excuse to use my all time favorite picture, of course!
[auf Deutsch via Heise Security und fscklog]
