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  • Apple And Reddit Shut Down The iWorm Botnet

    Apple And Reddit Shut Down The iWorm Botnet

    Kate Knibbs

    Last week, a Russian security firm discovered that over 17,000 Mac computers had been infected with a malicious software called iWorm that connected infected devices to a botnet by using Reddit to unearth links to command servers. This weekend, both Apple and Reddit took measures that rendered the software ineffective.