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Security firm identifies origins of ‘Flashback’ Mac virus
Posted On Monday, April 23, 2012 By temp. Under BoyGenius Tags: apple, boygenius, flashback, kaspersky, mac, macbook, security, trojan, virus, wordpress
The “Flashback” virus discovered to have infected more than 600,000 Mac computers earlier this month originated on a series of WordPress blogs, security experts have determined. According to Alexander Gostev, head of the global research and analysis team at Kaspersky, the virus began as a trojan hidden within a fake Adobe software update. In March, however, the malware’s creators repackaged the virus in a “drive-by attack” that infected users’ Apple computers when they visited one of thousands of compromised WordPress blogs.







