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Microsoft Office Vulnerability Brings Another Trojan To The Mac

Microsoft Office Vulnerability Brings Another Trojan To The Mac

Just another reason why you should avoid installing Microsoft software on your Mac.

With the Flashback trojan now threatened by extinction thanks to Apple’s new removal tool, it’s time to turn our attention to another threat. A vulnerability in Microsoft Office is allowing the “Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a” trojan to infect systems running Mac OS X and use a Java exploit to avoid detection from anti-malware products

Once on your system, the trojan can feed back screenshots of your system and execute commands.

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