Flashback Trojan hits 300K US Macs; is your computer compromised?

[Jack]

The Flashback Trojan has hit 600,000 Macs worldwide, 300,000 in the US and at least 274 in Cupertino alone. Is your computer safe?

The times when Apple computers were malware-free are far gone. Mac users need to be wary, as the Flashback Trojan has taken a toll on Mac OS X computers, stealing person information through Web browsers and Java.

According to a report today from Russian antivirus company Dr. Web, the growing Mac botnet had originally laid claim to 500,000 Mac computers, but later that number was updated to 600,000. At least 274 of those bots were found to be checking in from Cuptertino, CA.

The numbers point out that 57 percent (303,449) of the compromised Macs are US located, and around 20 (106,379) percent lie festering in Canada. The UK has the third largest number of infected Macs, claiming 12 percent of the botnet. Australia comes in fourth with 32,527 infected hosts.

Users were infected with BackDoor.Flashback.39 after being redirected to a bogus website. A Google SERP in March points to there being at least four million compromised web pages, and some users have reported infection when visiting dlink.com. Once the JavaScript code loads a Java-applet contining the exploit, the exploit downloads a payload from a remote server. There are then two versions of the Trojan

Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/apple/flashback-trojan-hits-300k-us-macs-is-your-computer-compromised/

 

[jamescv7]

Reasons that anything have possibility of infection:

1) Novice users have out dated security software and leaves the alerts to take the actions. That the purpose were browsing the internet

2) And links that users clicks immediately without anything of second opinion.

 

[Vextor]

This is what Mac users needed. Not the virus, but the awareness of it. Will Mac users finally learn that Macs aren't 100% percent secure?