I read this one over at macworld.com. Evidently some less than noble individuals placed a pirated copy of the new iWork 09 online, which was downloaded over 20,000 times. This turned out to be a Trojan horse that asked for the users' password and proceeded to install itself. This has been confirmed as an in the wild threat but fortunately the infection does not spread.
Security through obscurity is a phrase that has been used for years to describe the Mac platform in general and I tend to agree. The real question is how Apple will respond to threats such as these considering as their platform grows in popularity they will start to face the same problems that are affecting Windows users. The difference is Microsoft has had decades of addressing these problems and hardening Windows from a multitude of attack vectors, while Apple has seemingly skated by (getting back to that obscurity thing). I won't bash Mac users on this one, but a sense of humility would be nice in regards to security at the very least and in this area they could learn a lot from Microsoft.
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