The Linux-based Tsunami backdoor trojan has made its way over to the Mac, according to security firm ESET. The company posted to its blog (hat tip to Macworld) that a Mac-specific variant, OSX/Tsunami.



From ArsTechnica:

A has made an appearance on the trojan scene, though ESET made no mention of whether it was gaining any traction among users.

ESET's Robert Lipovsky wrote on Wednesday that the code for OSX/Tsunami.A was ported from the Linux version of the trojan that the company has been tracking since 2002. Hard-coded is a list of IRC servers and channels, which the trojan tries to connect to in order to listen for malicious commands sent from those channels.

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