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Fighting the OSX/Flashback Hydra

14

Apr

2012

The biggest Mac botnet ever encountered, the OSX/Flashback botnet, is being hit hard. On April 12th, Apple released a third Java update since the Flashback malicious code outbreak. This update includes a new tool called MRT (Malware Removal Tool) which allows Apple to quickly push malware removal code to their user base. The first mission […]

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Security Week In Review, April 2-6

10

Apr

2012

Security took a few unexpected twists and turns for the first week of April. For one, Mac owners received a bit of a jolt when a rapidly spreading botnet ran rampant on their machines. Meanwhile, Anonymous is expanding its reach to the world’s most populous nation and the public white board Pastebin appears to be […]

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Flashfake Mac OS X botnet confirmed

06

Apr

2012

Earlier this week, Dr.Web reported the discovery of a Mac OS X botnet Flashback (Flashfake). According to their information, the estimated size of this botnet is more than 500, 000 infected Mac machines. We followed up with an analysis of the latest variant of this bot, Trojan-Downloader.OSX.Flashfake.ab. It is being distributed via infected websites as […]

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