Mac OS X Flashback Trojan is still alive, recently infected 22,000 Apple machines

The Flashback Trojan, the most sophisticated piece of malware that infected over 600,000 Apple's Macs systems back in April, 2012 is still alive and has infected about 22,000 machines recently, according to the researchers from Intego. For a refresh, Flashback Trojan was first discovered in...

Clues About Flashback Creator Come Together

Nearly a year since the Flashback Trojan surfaced and ultimately infected more than 600,000 Apple OS X computers, the author of the malware may haven been discovered. After some sleuthing by security bloggers Brian Krebs over the past year – documented today on the Krebs on Security blog – the...

Apple Breached by Facebook Hackers Using Java Exploit

Apple is the latest major American company to enter the security confessional and disclose it has been breached. The company told Reuters today it was attacked by the same crew that hit Facebook, which disclosed its breach last Friday, and that like the social media giant, no data had been stolen...

New Zero-Day Vulnerability Found in Java 5, 6 and 7; 1.1 Billion Desktops Affected

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to using Java, security researchers have found another gaping hole that could impact potentially more than 1.1 billion desktops running the Oracle-owned platform. A critical vulnerability in all of the latest versions of Java SE software was discovered...

Apple Fixes Flaws, Updates Java 6 for OS X

Apple pushed out a Java update for its Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion systems Wednesday, fixing vulnerabilities Oracle tackled in last week’s emergency CVE-2012-4681 patch. Both Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 10 and Java for OS X 2012-005 update the Java SE 6 plugin and, in what might be a...

Anonymous Leaks Apple UDIDs Following Alleged Hack of FBI

UPDATE–The Antisec arm of hacktivist group Anonymous published one million unique device identifier numbers, or UDIDs, for Apple devices, including iPhones and iPads, on Monday night. The group alleges the slew of information was swiped from a laptop belonging to the FBI earlier this year. In a...

Apple : 0 | Flashback trojan : 1 , Apple admits malware defeat

Apple : 0 | Flashback trojan : 1 , Apple admits malware defeat Apple has quietly removed a statement from its website that the Mac operating system isn't susceptible to viruses. Apple released a patch to a Java vulnerability that lead to the infection of roughly 600,000 Macs with the Flashback...

Apple Patches Quicktime, Fixes 17 Vulnerabilities

Apple continued its recent parade of patches by releasing an update for Quicktime yesterday, fixing 17 different security vulnerabilities, several which could lead to remote code execution. The update, Quicktime 7.7.2, addresses critical issues in Quicktime for Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP SP2...

New Exploit Kit RedKit Discovered in Wild

A new exploit kit hit the scene recently, and according to Arseny Levin of Spiderlabs, the RedKit exploit kit contains an API that generates new host-site URLs every hour. The authors of the kit haven’t named it, so Levin and Spiderlabs simply chose to call it RedKit in reference to its color...

Flashback Creators May Be Raking in $10K a Day

Unprotected users visiting a page hosting the much-discussed Flashback Trojan could be earning some serious cash for the malware’s creators, according to new research from Symantec. In a post to the company’s Security Response blog, Symantec notes the Flashback Trojan could be earning up to $10,0...

New Flashback malware variant found in the wild

New Flashback malware variant found in the wild A new Flashback Trojan has been discovered that infects Macs without prompting the user for a password. If you haven't updated Java on your Mac, or disabled it entirely, you could be a victim. The new variant dubbed Flashback.S is actively being...

New Mac Malware, SabPub, Used In Targeted Attacks

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab says a new malicious program, dubbed SabPub, exploits the same Java security hole as the Flashback Trojan and enables targeted attacks against Mac users. The new malware was identified in a blog post by Kaspersky Lab expert Costin Raiu on Saturday and is described as ...

Flashback Bot Counts Fall, Researchers Set up Free Infection-Checking Site

Mac malware is still enough of an oddity that the existence of a single botnet made up of Macs has prompted a huge amount of publicity and finger-pointing in the general direction of Apple. The furor over the Flashback malware seems to be receding a bit, and researchers say that the number of...

Mac OS X OSX/Flashback Trojan Detection

Using the supplied credentials, Nessus has found evidence that the remote Mac OS X host has been compromised by a trojan in the OSX/Flashback family of trojans. The software is typically installed by means of a malicious Java applet or Flash Player installer. Depending on the variant, the trojan...

Flashback Mac Trojan Hits More than 500K Machines

The Flashback Trojan that has been infecting Mac OSX machines of late appears to have become the most successful piece of Mac-based malware in the short history of such things. Researchers say that there have been upwards of 500,000 Macs infected by the malware, and that number may still rise...

New Version of Flashback Mac Trojan Found Using Java Exploits

A new version of the Flashback Trojan that targets Macs has appeared, and this one uses a drive-by download technique to attempt exploits of two Java vulnerabilities. The Flashback.G malware also tries to trick users into accepting a fake digital certificate, which will install the malware if the...

Flashback Trojan Now Disabling Mac XProtect

Mac-based malware is still a relatively rare occurrence when compared to the flood of malicious programs aimed at Windows. But, it appears that the attackers who are creating the more recent Mac malware either have experience writing Windows-based malware or are simply paying close attention to...