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Flashback Hacker ‘Plotting Comeback With Fresh Mac...

Author of malware that infected over 600,000 Macs is concocting attacks on Apple products

Flashback operators were unable to make much money from the hundreds of thousands of Macs they had control of

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Older Mac operating systems receive a security update covering the Flashback malware

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Flashback made cyber crooks a tonne of money in a Google-tracking, ad-clicking scheme

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Mac OS X users were infected with the Flashback malware via hijacked WordPress websites, according to Kaspersky researchers

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Flashback is still sitting on 140,000 machines, indicating many Mac owners aren't updating

Oracle fixes a load of vulnerabilities, many of which could be used for remote code execution

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The SabPub APT is still active and is going after Mac machines

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Despite getting slammed by some corners of the security industry over Flashback, Apple gets praise for its "innovative" Java update

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Apple is slow and misguided, but the number of Flashback bots is coming down, say security experts

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Apple looks to dismantle the C&C infrastructure of Flashback with the help of ISPs

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Security vendors have rushed out tools to defeat the Flashback virus infecting Macintosh computers

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Apple has issued a second patch for the widespread Flashback Trojan, this time focusing on OS X Lion

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Over half a million Apple Macs are infected with the Flashback Trojan, a Russian security firm has warned

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Formerly a Unix backdoor, the Tsunami Trojan targets Macs for a DDoS bot army