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Doctor Web exposes 550 000 strong Mac botnet

05

Apr

2012

Doctor Web-the Russian anti-virus vendor-conducted a research to determine the scale of spreading of Trojan BackDoor.Flashback that infects computers running Mac OS X. Now BackDoor.Flashback botnet encompasses more than 550 000 infected machines, most of which are located in the United States and Canada. This once again refutes claims by some experts that there are […]

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Mac Flashback Exploiting Unpatched Java Vulnerability

02

Apr

2012

A new Flashback variant (Mac malware) has been spotted exploiting CVE-2012-0507 (a Java vulnerability). We’ve been anticipating something like this for a while now. Oracle released an update that patched this vulnerability back in February… for Windows. But — Apple hasn’t released the update for OS X (yet). It appears that the Flashback gang is […]

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Are you having a (Mac) Flashback?

23

Mar

2012

On Monday, I provided steps on how to avoid your Mac being compromised by the Flashback trojan. Today I will provide information on how to locate a Flashback infection. To better understand the steps below, it is better to also know a bit about Flashback. It’s an OS X malware family that modifies the content […]

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