Blog Posts Tagged with "Flashback"
ZeroAccess Hits Victims with High Bandwidth Consumption
July 19, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“The concern with ZeroAccess is that it is using the subscriber’s bandwidth maliciously which will cost them money as they exceed bandwidth caps. And, once the computer is compromised, it can also spread additional malware or launch new attacks... while connecting to over one million computers globally..."
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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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Multi-Platform Malware Targets Both Widows and Mac OS
April 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"If the threat is running on a Mac operating system, it downloads a dropper type malware written in Python. However, if the threat is running on a Windows operating system, it downloads a standard Windows executable file dropper. Both droppers drop a Trojan horse program..."
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Yet Another Flashback Variant Targeting Mac OS X
April 26, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Another Flashback Trojan malware variant has been discovered, and this one is even more insidious than those already identified - it can silently infect a Mac user's device. Flashback.S can stealthily infect a system without having tipped the victim off by requesting a password...
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Flashback - Are You Joking? There is No Malware for Mac!
April 23, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
We must remember that in any software there will be vulnerabilities that could be exploited for criminal purposes. To give you an immediate idea of the malware available for the Mac environment, I produced a table that lists the main agents detected by a well known antivirus...
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Apple Releases Flashback Malware Removal Tool and Patches
April 17, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Apple has released a malware removal tool for the most common variant of the Flashback Trojan, as well as security updates to mitigate the vulnerability exploited by the malware for OS X Lion v10.7.3, OS X Lion Server v10.7.3. Mac OS X v10.6.8 and Mac OS X Server v10.6.8...
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SabPub - The Latest Mac OS X Backdoor Java Exploit
April 16, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"This new threat is a custom OS X backdoor, which appears to have been designed for use in targeted attacks... The backdoor contains functionality to make screenshots of the user’s current session and execute commands on the infected machine..."
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