New Mac OS Malware Targeting Tibetan activists

A new variant of Mac OS malware has been detected ,Targetting Tibetan Activist.New Found Malware is a variant of OS/imuler.The most common dropper used is a Group Photo of Tibetan organization .The malware is reported in intego.com a Mac Security Blog.

The purpose of this Trojan is data stealing and it use two methods for this.It searches for data in the system and also take screen shots.After Installation ,the Trojan waits for the commands from the attackers. It also has  the capability of Downloading new programs into the system.

The data thus collected from the infected system is uploaded into the controller severs.The new malware is detected as OSX /Imuler.E.It varies little from the previous OSX/imuler.D Trojan.

OSX/Imuler.D was reported as being received as a threatening email.The email Threatens the user saying  "Got your Dirty Picture". The attachment contains a zip file called "Your Dirty Picture".Inside this zip file there are two Files with an Image Icon.So these applications will look like an image and If the file is run . it will install the backdoor.

The report says that ,the users with Updated Antivirus is protected from this threat .F-Secure and Sophos has updated their database with this new malware categorizing as a Trojan.

Sources : Intego ,Kaspersky,F-Secure