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A backdoor Trojan horse, which would allow a remote hacker to access your Mac computer without your knowledge and potentially snoop on your files and activity, has been discovered hidden inside a b...

The Mac Imuler Trojan uses images of FHM supermodel Irina Shayk to do its dirty work.

 

Somehow I doubt that Mac users are any smarter than their Windows cousins when it comes to resisting temptation.

 

We're all human, after all. And there is a (probably significant) proportion of the population which isn't adverse to searching the web for nude pictures of supermodels.

 

Of course, the bad guys who spread malware know about human weakness all too well - and exploit it regularly to trick computer users into clicking on files and installing malicious code that exposes them to risks.

 

===> By default, Mac OS X doesn't display file extensions. Which means, that Mac users might be duped into believing that the file they are about to click on is a JPG image, rather than an application. <===