Thursday we reported that according to Ivan Sorokin, a malware analyst at Dr. Web a Trojan botnet named ‘Flashback’ is infecting over 600’000 Macs worldwide through a Java exploit. Yesterday Apple issued a second software update to address a security flaw on its OS X Lion 10.7 operating system, following up on the earlier security update for Snow Leopard. If [...]
Posts Tagged ‘botnet’
Posted in 
Tags: 
Up To 600’000 Macs Are Infected With Flashback Trojan
Posted by Rob Gordon on April 5th, 2012
It has been widely believed by many that Macs are more secure than Windows PCs and are less likely to become infected by a virus. It is more accurately believed by fewer people that it is purely a matter of numbers, and virus writers target Windows PCs because there are so many more of them. [...]
