Last workweek , a Russian certificate firmdiscoveredthat over 17,000 Mac computers had been infected with a malicious software called iWorm that connect infected devices to a botnet by using Reddit to unearth links to require servers . This weekend , both Apple and Reddittook measuresthat generate the software inefficient .
Appleupdatedits Xprotect software to add the iWorm to its leaning of blocked programs .
Meanwhile , Reddit banned the false Minecraft subreddit that the hack were using to connect the infect computing machine to the botnet .
It come along this botnet was defanged before the hackers could use it for anything villainous , but it ’s disturbing that its Creator snare into so many computer before it got close down . [ Business Insider ]
ikon via MacRumors
https://gizmodo.com/hackers-are-using-reddit-to-connect-17-000-macs-to-a-bo-1642062140
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