Right after security engineers the world over high-fived themselves
for stomping out the Flashback Trojan, which menaced more than 650,000
Mac users, a new menace rears its ugly head — and this one is
potentially even larger.
Anti-virus security firm Kaspersky Lab
spotted a second Mac Trojan in the wild, this one formally known as
Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a (or “SabPub” for short).
Like the Flashback
Trojan, SabPub also slips onto a Mac by way of Java, infecting
computers when a specific link is clicked in an email.
SabPub has specific targets
“The Flashback and the SabPub Trojans are totally different,” explains Alex Gostev, Kaspersky’s chief security expert.
