These days I told you that a dangerous Mac malware generically known as iWorm, can allow some hackers to gain total control over your computer and take almost any kind of data from it. Over 18.000 of Macwere infected by iWorm, the malware spreading through the famous website Reddit, he connecting there and to find out which servers he has to listen to the commands given by the hackers.
It is worth mentioning that in order to acquire a control server address list, the bot uses the search service at reddit.com, and — as a search query — specifies the hexadecimal values of the first 8 bytes of the MD5 hash of the current date. The reddit.com search returns a web page containing a list of botnet C&C servers and ports published by criminals in comments to the post minecraftserverlists under the account vtnhiaovyd.
To protect Mac owners against any type of malware, the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), implemented years ago in OS X a system called xprotect, preventing the installation of applications that contain various types of software that can affect computers. During last night Apple updated the Xrotect system of OS X including definitions for iWorm, so that if you try to install any application that contains it, you will be prevented by OS X.
