New Apple Mac trojan called OSX/Crisis discovered

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New Apple Mac trojan called OSX/Crisis discovered
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Date 2012 / 24 juillet 2012
Editor/Conference Intego
Link http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/new-apple-mac-trojan-called-osxcrisis-discovered-by-intego-virus-team/ (Archive copy)
Author Lysa Myers
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Abstract

Intego has discovered a new Trojan called OSX/Crisis. This threat is a dropper which creates a backdoor when it’s run. It installs silently, without requiring a password, and works only in OSX versions 10.6 and 10.7 – Snow Leopard and Lion.

The Trojan preserves itself against reboots, so it will continue to run until it’s removed. Depending on whether or not the dropper runs on a user account with Admin permissions, it will install different components. We have not yet seen if or how this threat is installed on a user’s system; it may be that an installer component will try to establish Admin permissions.

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