[ISN] Newly Discovered Mac OS X, Android Trojans Reflect Cybercriminals' Expanding Targets

http://www.darkreading.com/insider-threat/167801100/security/vulnerabilities/229219534/newly-discovered-mac-os-x-android-trojans-reflect-cybercriminals-expanding-targets.html

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Darkreading 
Feb 28, 2011 

Microsoft's and Adobe's software are still some of the biggest targets 
of malware development, but recently discovered Trojans for Apple's Mac 
OS X and the Android smartphone platform indicate signs that the bad 
guys are branching out to other increasingly popular product platforms.

Researchers at Sophos over the weekend revealed that they had discovered 
a new crimeware kit for a remote access Trojan built specifically for 
Mac OS X: The so-called BlackHoleRAT, currently in the development 
phase, appears to be a spin-off of a Windows Trojan known as darkComet. 
Meanwhile, Symantec researchers today provided details on a new Android 
Trojan called Android.Pjapps that has been found in legitimate Android 
apps builds a botnet.

Security experts say the new OS X and Android Trojans in and of 
themselves aren't as significant as are the targets in which they are 
aimed.

Chester Wisniewski, senior security adviser for Sophos, says SophosLabs 
used to see only about one piece of malware a week for Mac OS X, but in 
the past year or two it sees more than one per day. But putting that 
into perspective, it sees 90,000 new unique malware samples for Windows, 
he notes.

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