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We, like most in the security community, have been following the latest developments with the Mac OS X Flashback Trojan and it’s exploitation of the recently patched Java vulnerability (CVE-2012-0507).  This story has a lot of interesting twists and turns: The Flashback Trojan is a relatively new Trojan family, appearing on the scene late last summer/early September […]

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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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