Reddit Helps Botnet Recruit 17,000 Macs

[Marshall Honorof]

A new bit of Mac-centric malware has infected more than 17,000 computers, and its creators are employing Reddit to add even more systems.

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[stridervm]

.... How can a malware author request a forum to spread a malware?

 

[NxN_Slite]

As far as I can read. It send command using REDIT (hidden in some way or not)
not to deploy the malware directly.