The SecureMac team has detected another Horse Horder in the wild for the Mac. Like previous findings from this team, this Trojan Horse attempts to disguise itself on your system and then affect it negatively in some way. In the case of the BlackHole RAT 2.0, it slows down your system by tying up the CPU, executes shell commands, and attempts to erase the hard drive. In short, it’s something you don’t want.

“Is this you in this video?” is an all too common question we can find on social networks nowadays. However, new data from SecureMac says that when you see this and a link to a video, it’s highly likely that it’s a virus. This trojan is commonly spread through this kind of message on social networking sites, and is capable of affecting many versions of Mac OS X, including Snow Leopard.

SecureMac is reporting a new Trojan horse that threatens the Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 installation. AppleScript.THT, a new variant of the infamous Trojan Horse virus, is originating from a hacked website through iChat and Limewire. The Trojan horse allows a malicious user to access a system remotely and transmit system and user passwords. more »