‘Macarena’ Virus Targets Macs

Source code for a Mac virus has gone public, a security company warned Friday, and although the original doesn’t carry a malicious payload, more dangerous variants can be expected. The virus, dubbed ‘OSX.Macarena’ by Symantec, targets some, but not all, Mac OS X Mach-O executables. “Although methods of infecting Mach-O binaries have been publicly available for some time, this marks the first known fully functional Mach-O file infecter virus,” Symantec noted in an alert to customers of its DeepSight threat network on Friday. “The source code for this virus is publicly available and as such it is possible that variants may be trivially developed to extend the virus’s functionality.”

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