Flashback

Flashback Hacker ‘Plotting Comeback With Fresh Mac Attacks’

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

12 years ago

Flashback Crooks Fluffed Money Making Scheme

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

12 years ago

Apple Releases Flashback Update For Leopard OS

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

12 years ago

Flashback Intercepted Google Searches To Make $10k A Day

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

13 years ago

Flashback Mac OS X Trojan Spread Via WordPress Blogs

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

13 years ago

Flashback Still Festering on 140,000 Machines

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

13 years ago

Oracle Issues Mammoth 88 Vulnerability Patch

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

13 years ago

Another Mac APT Attack Spotted

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

13 years ago

Apple Issues ‘Cool’ Fix For Flashback

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

13 years ago

Flashback Slashed But Apple Faces Backlash

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

13 years ago

Apple Plotting Flashback Botnet Murder

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

13 years ago

Security Vendors Rush Out Anti Flashback Tools For Macs

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

13 years ago

Flashback Mac Trojan Gets Second Patch

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

13 years ago

Mac Attack: 600,000 Infected With Flashback

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

13 years ago

Tsunami Wave Of Mac DDoS Malware Spells Danger

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

13 years ago