Apr 15, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans
Security software vendor Sophos and game maker Rovio warn about a Trojan horse pretending to be the popular Angry Birds Space game. Malware authors are using the popularity of the Angry Birds series of games as a way to infect the smartphones of users who download the...
Apr 15, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
By Ed Bott In its ongoing battle to clean up the Flashback malware mess, Apple has now released a standalone removal tool. The downloadable utility is available exclusively for Mac owners running OS X Lion. It will not run on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or earlier...
Apr 10, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
Apple has released a second update for Java to patch the vulnerability that allows the Flashback malware access to MacOS machines. This Java release is specifically targeted to MacOS-X Lion and shows as Java for OS X Lion 2012-002. Some of the Macintosh community have...
Apr 8, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
By David Murphy It’s been quite a week for Mac owners. And that’s all thanks to Flashback, a drive-by-download attack that requires absolutely no input by users in order to install itself on one’s Apple system. Visit a malicious website and...
Apr 6, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
Apple’s claims to be virus free are a thing of the past… The no-so-new FlashBack trojan with a botnet of 600,000+ macs doing it’s bidding has well and truly ended the Apple claim that viruses are a “PC thing”. More details on FlashBack If...
Apr 6, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
Have you read about the 600,000 strong MacOS-X botnet? Were you aware that a simple Java exploit was the cause? Further – were you aware that at LEAST since September of 2011 – that Apple knew of the flashback threat – and yet the Java distribution...
