Blog Posts Tagged with "Backdoor.Flashback"
OS X Flashback Botnet Analysis from Symantec
May 17, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Utilizing less than 2% of the entire botnet the attackers were able to generate $14,000 in three weeks, meaning that if the attackers were able to use the entire botnet, they could potentially have earned millions of dollars a year..."
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Symantec Reverse Engineers OS X Flashback Malware
May 14, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Symantec researchers reverse engineered components of the Flashback malware that recently infected more than 600,000 Mac systems and reveal that it was designed in part as a highly profitable ad-clicking operation that could be net the Trojan's creators $10,000 per day...
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Researchers Analyze Flashback Trojan Botnet Traffic
May 01, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Researchers, who successfully tool over C&C servers, noted that nearly two out of three infected systems are running Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 which included Java preinstalled. Less vulnerable are systems running Lion OS X 10.7, unless users manually downloaded Java after purchase...
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Backdoor.Flashback Mac Virus Patch and Removal Tools
April 10, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Last week Doctor Web, found that the Flashback Mac Trojan has infected almost 600,000 systems, and has created an online tool to check to see if your machine is infected. F-Secure has released instructions on how to remove the virus if you are indeed infected...
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