[dba-Tech] Mac OSX zombie network

John R Bartow jbartow at winhaven.net
Tue Oct 7 14:46:23 CDT 2014


Yes, you do. Apparently this has been out there awhile now and they're only
up to 17,000? I just chuckled to myself - that's like a beta test for  a
zombie network using windows ;-)

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian
Andersen
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 11:51 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Mac OSX zombie network

Hey, it might look like a small number, but you gotta start from somewhere!

- Hans


> On Oct 7, 2014, at 9:25 AM, "John R Bartow" <jbartow at winhaven.net> wrote:
> 
> FYI Macheads:
> 
> A newly discovered zombie network that exclusively targets Apple 
> computers running Mac OS X across the globe has compromised roughly 
> 17,000 machines so far, giving hackers backdoor access to infected 
> computers, researchers at Russian antivirus firm Dr.Web warned. - See more
at:
>
http://thehackernews.com/2014/10/over-17000-mac-machines-affected-by_6.html?
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> News+%
> 28The+Hackers+News+-+Security+Blog%29&_m=3n.009a.723.kp0aof74zx.f50#st
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> &utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheHackersNews+%28The+Hackers+Ne
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> ecurity+Blog%29&_m=3n.009a.723.kp0aof74zx.f50#sthash.0bY3V9ii.dpuf
> 
> 
> 
> 17,000 - it seems do small compared to the million windows pcs zombie 
> networks out there. I guess it's all in the scale of things.
> 
> 
> 
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