IWork Trojan Horse May Be Turning Macs Into Zombies

Over the years, Mac users have been lucky enough that the word "zombie" only conjures up the shambling brain-craving hordes of the undead in movies like Shaun of the Dead, but Windows users have long been dealing with the menace of zombie botnets–networks of PCs corrupted by malware into vectors for malicious attacks. Now two researchers claim to have discovered the first Mac zombie botnet in existence and have published a paper in Virus Bulletin (subscription required).