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[J-M]

Only one day after the Leap.A issue we have new Mac-only worm:

Just a day after experts warned of what is believed to be the first Trojan in the wild to target Apple Computer's Mac OS X, alerts are being published on a new worm that exploits an 8-month-old vulnerability in the operating system.

reports CNET at
http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6041091 ... &subj=news

From the article:

The new Inqtana worm spreads through a security flaw in Apple's Bluetooth software, antivirus vendors Symantec and F-Secure said on Friday. Apple provided a fix for the flaw last June with security update 2005-006.

The worm attempts to use Bluetooth to propagate. Once it infects a computer it searches for other Bluetooth-enabled devices and sends itself to those it finds, Symantec said.

An official name of this malware is
OSX/Inqtana.A.

More details at F-Secure's Blog at
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives ... l#00000817

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[Antony]

From the same Cnet News.com article,

Inqtana is a "proof-of-concept" worm, according to Symantec and F-Secure, meaning it's an example of attack code, but itself likely won't affect many users, if any at all. Inqtana is not believed to have actually attacked Mac users.

I think we need to treat "proof-of-concept" things differently than to the actual worms/viruses. Allow me to repost from [sdp=70493]another post[/sdp], Intego, a company once made itself famous by exaggerating the discovering of "proof-of-concept" MP3 Trojan horse, and the sole purpose was to sell its software, did NOT get leave good name.

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[J-M]

Many Mac users (and other readers too!) might be interested about this new column published at SecurityFocus site:
Spreading security awareness for OS X

Read the whole article at http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/389 including

interview of Mr. Kevin Finisterre, founder of security startup Digital Munition, who created the three recent versions of the InqTana worm.

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