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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2166228/600-infected-macs-botnet
600,000 infected Macs are found in a botnet
Over half a million and rising
A RUSSIAN SECURITY FIRM says that it has stumbled upon a botnet that has hijacked an impressive 600,000 infected Mac computers.
The firm, called Dr Web
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https://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/over-600000-macs-infected-with-flashback-trojan/11345
Two months ago, a new variant of the Flashback Trojan started exploiting a security hole in Java to silently infect Mac OS X machines. Apple has since patched Java, but this was only yesterday. As of today, more than 600,000 Macs are currently infected with the Flashback Trojan, which steals your user names and passwords to popular websites by monitoring your network traffic.
If you think one of your machines may be infected, F-Secure has instructions on how to use the Terminal to find out.
https://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan-downloader_osx_flashback_i.shtml
Infection
Only after downloading the payload does Flashback.I proceed with infecting the machine. To do so, the malware prompts for the administrator password, as in the following screenshot:
Whether or not the user inputs their administrator password at the prompt determines the type of infection the malware subsequently performs:see if you do & don't.
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https://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/how-big-a-security-risk-is-java-can-you-really-quit-using-it/4749
The criminals who successfully infected 600,000 Macs with the Flashback malware (aka Flashfake) could just as easily have trained their guns on Windows or Linux users.
https://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/second-source-confirms-1-in-100-macs-are-infected-by-flashback/4737
Summary: A second source has now confirmed previously reported research: at least 600,000 Macs worldwide are infected with the Flashback malware downloader. That’s a staggering number, representing about 1% of the installed base of Macs. So what’s next?
Two independent sources have now confirmed that at least 600,000 Macs worldwide have been infected with the malware downloader called Flashback.
That number is not just an estimate. It’s a count of unique hardware IDs reporting in to a command-and-control server.
Apple's Mac platform has long been promoted as safer than the competition, but as Mac sales and market share grow, it's become a bigger target.
http://news.drweb.com/show/?i=2341
Doctor Web recommends Mac users to download and install a security update released by Apple from support.apple.com/kb/HT5228 to prevent infection of their systems by BackDoor.Flashback.39.
http://news.drweb.com/?i=2262&c=9&lng=en&p=0
Mac OS X exploit and Trojan horse monitoring users via webcam
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