Researchers have discovered a series of variants of the DevilRobber Mac OS X Trojan that have a menu of different capabilities, depending upon the strain, and can not only mine Bitcoins using the infected machine's processing power, but also steals files, installs a Web proxy and may steal the user's Safari browsing history.
From Threatpost:
From Threatpost:
The new variants of DevilRobber, which has been making the rounds recently, appear to each have a different set of capabilities because they may have each been built for specific jobs, according to an analysis of the malware by researchers at F-Secure. Some of the variants appear to be looking for specific pornographic files on infected Macs and steals passwords from the machine in order to access any files that may be protected. All of the variants of DevilRobber have the ability to take data from the machine and upload it to a remote server.New Mac Malware Variants Found in Trojaned Apps Are Stealing Data
The new variants were discovered in legitimate Mac applications that had been Trojaned and then shared on Pirate Bay.
