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Intel Wants To Sic McAfee On Malware With Virus-Fighting Chips More bad news for Apple users: hot on the heels of Flashback, reports are circulating of another Mac-specific trojan — called Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a — that is spreading because of a Microsoft Office vulnerability.
As promised, Apple rolled out a Java update today designed to combat the Flashback infection afflicting some 600,000 Mac users.
Apple announced today that it is hard at work developing a means of scrubbing the Flashback.k Trojan from the 600,000 or so Macs it’s infected.
Dr Mac is the security firm that discovered last week’s all-Mac botnet, something that is pretty unprecedented for the operating system. After sending Apple the findings of their research, Dr Mac heard nothing. And while it technically has yet to acknowledge Dr Mac at all, the fact that Apple attempted to nix the group’s monitoring servers shut down suggests it’s very aware of the situation.
The Flashback Trojan is proving to be a very agile bit of code. It’s mutated several times since it was initially discovered last year, and its newest iteration will let itself onto your system with or without your permission.
When Kaspersky Labs revealed its analysis of the Duqu Trojan earlier this month they were stumped by a block of code that appeared to be a previously unseen programming language. With the help of the internet, Kaspersky’s identified the code, not as a new computer language but rather an old one.
Yesterday, we learned Anonymous put out their very own hackeriffic OS — a tricked out version of Linux filled with tools for mischief. Oops! It’s filled with trojans instead. Get used to more of this.
The Conficker worm was one of the more intriguing and potentially destructive pieces of malware in the past decade. Earlier reports have suggested that Stuxnet was created by the US and Israeli governments, and now Reuters has a source telling them Conficker was also used to negate Iran’s nuclear program.
