Apple Mac computers have often been considered safer than Windows PCs because there have been very few attacks directed at them. Here is news of a widespread, Trojan attack targeting the Mac. The attack is not new, luring people to install malware by offering something of interest (porn videos), and the result is not new (pointing people to bad DNS servers), but this may be the first widespread, professional attack on the Mac.
The whole Trojan is relatively simple and works almost exactly the same as its brother for Windows operating systems . In case of execution, the Trojan changes the DNS settings on the machine and reports back to the C&C server. While the Trojan is relatively simple and not a big threat, two things came to my mind immediately: the bad guys are taking Mac now seriously – this is a professional attempt at attacking Mac systems (and they could have been much more damaging really). The second thing that folks at Sunbelt noticed is that when they sent a sample to VirusTotal there were 0 (zero, nada, nilch) products that detected this.