A new version of a backdoor trojan for Apple's OS X operating system takes advantage of an exploit in Microsoft Word to spread.
From Apple Insider:
From Apple Insider:
The latest variant of the attack known as "LuckyCat" was discovered and detailed by Costin Raiu, Kasperskky lab expert. He found that a dummy infected machine was taken over by a remote user who started analyzing the machine and even stole some documents from the Mac.Latest Mac trojan spreads through Microsoft Word documents
"We are pretty confident the operation of the bot was done manually — which means a real attacker, who manually checks the infected machines and extracts data from them," Raiu wrote in a post to SecureList.
