Apple : 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback trojan

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600,000 Macs infected with Flashback trojan Posted: More than half a million Macs around the world have been infected with variations of the Flashback trojan. Flashback pinches user names and passwords by monitoring your network traffic. Russian antivirus company Dr. Web claims that the growing botnet has infected 600,000 Macs with 274 bots located in Cupertino, home of Apple. 56.6 percent of the affected Macs are in the US, 19.8 percent in Canada and 12.8 in the UK. Also... Virgin Media works with SOCA to battle Trojan threat The Flashback trojan was first discovered in September 2011, disguised as an Adobe Flash Player installer. New variant triggered by website visit Two months ago, a new variant began exploiting a security hole in Java. In its new form, a visit to a malicious website will automatically install the Flashback malware. Apple has now patched the hole, but only just this week. The new, patched, version of Java can be downloaded from Apple for OS X 10.6 and OS X Lion. If you think your Mac could already be infected, F-Secure has instructions on how to remove it.

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