BlackHole RAT 2 Trojan Horse for Mac OS X Discovered

As predicted by the SecureMac team, the new version of BlackHole RAT 2 was officially released on a hacker message board this weekend, with some slight differences from the earlier version analyzed by SecureMac. The trojan horse, once installed, disguises itself as a Java Updater. In addition, the author is now referring to the trojan as Freeze RAT, but it contains much of the same code as BlackHole Rat 2.0a. The new version has a more complicated installation process that requires physical access to the computer, so SecureMac continues to rate this as a low threat.