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Published Oct 25, 2011 | Updated Sep 15, 2017

Backdoor:MacOS_X/Tsunami.A

Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Aliases: Backdoor.OSX.Tsunami.S (VirusBuster) Trojan horse OSX/Agent.B (AVG) BDS/Katien.R (Avira) MAC.OSX.Backdoor.Tsunami.A (BitDefender) BackDoor.Ddoser.162 (Dr.Web) OSX/Tsunami.A trojan (ESET) Backdoor.OSX.Sunam (Ikarus) Backdoor.OSX.Sunam.b (Kaspersky) OSX/Tsunami (McAfee) OSX/Tsunami-A (Sophos) OSX.Tsunami (Sybari) OSX_TSUNAMI.A (Trend Micro)

Summary

Backdoor:MacOS_X/Tsunami.A is an IRC-controlled backdoor trojan capable of participating in and performing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

Manual removal is not recommended for this threat. To detect and remove this threat and other malicious software that may have been installed, run a full-system scan with an up-to-date antivirus product.
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