Flashback trojan have reportedly infected more than half a million Macs around the globe, according to Russian antivirus company Dr. Web. The company made an announcement on Wednesday about the growing Mac botnet, first claiming 550,000 infected Macs. Later in the day, Dr. Web malware analyst Sorokin Ivan posted to Twitter that the count had gone up to 600,000, with 274 bots even checking in from Cupertino, CA, where Apple's headquarters are located.
The 57 percent of the infected Macs are located in the US and 20 percent are in Canada. Flashback trojan searches an infected Mac for a number of antivirus applications before generating a list of botnet control servers and beginning the process of checking in with them. The malware installs itself after you visit a compromised or malicious webpage, so if you're on the Internet, you're potentially at risk.
Fix:
The fix for the Java vulnerability is out.
If you think your machine may be infected, F-Secure has instructions on how to use the Terminal to find out.
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This machine is clean
Arstechnica has published an article guiding the Mac users to check forand get rid ofa Mac Flashback infection here.
The 57 percent of the infected Macs are located in the US and 20 percent are in Canada. Flashback trojan searches an infected Mac for a number of antivirus applications before generating a list of botnet control servers and beginning the process of checking in with them. The malware installs itself after you visit a compromised or malicious webpage, so if you're on the Internet, you're potentially at risk.
Fix:
The fix for the Java vulnerability is out.
If you think your machine may be infected, F-Secure has instructions on how to use the Terminal to find out.
This machine is clean
Arstechnica has published an article guiding the Mac users to check forand get rid ofa Mac Flashback infection here.