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Mac OS X Threat Flashback is Back!

12

Apr

2012

OSX/Imuler is not the only Mac OS X threat that has resurfaced this year. OSX/Flashback has been making its rounds again. As you can remember, OSX/Flashback has appeared last year and disguised as Adobe Flash Player Installer. The previous variants connects to remote host to download its component files and installing backdoor that injects to […]

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Variant of Mac Flashback Malware Making the Rounds

12

Apr

2012

Unless you have been living under a nondigital rock recently, you have probably heard of the Flashback Trojan, which attacks Macs. Around April 4 we saw reports of more than 500,000 infections by this malware. Further, McAfee Labs has recently come across a new variant making the rounds. This is no surprise: Whenever a piece […]

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OSX.Flashback.K – Suffering a Slashback – Infections Down to 270,000

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Apr

2012

OSX.Flashback initially arrived on the scene in late 2011. It has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a social-engineering scam trying to pass off as a fake Flash update using digital certificates purporting to come from Apple. Flashback is now leveraging the latest Java vulnerability (BID 52161 – Oracle Java SE Remote […]

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Mac OS X Threat Flashback is Back!

Variant of Mac Flashback Malware Making the Rounds

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