Evidently, seventeen thousand Apple Inc. (NasdaqGS: AAPL) MAC OS X machines (worldwide) have been corralled into a nefarious botnet. Discovered by a relative unknown in the burgeoning Russian anti-virus industry (nope, it wasn't Kapersky) this bot is probably the prettiest ever, eh Comrade? One bit of good news, Apple has released a new malware definitions update as of 11:00 AM yesterday.