By: Jeffrey Burt, eWeek
New variants of the fast-growing Flashback Trojan have affected more than 600,000, according to security vendor Doctor Web.More than 600,000 Apple Mac computers worldwide—more than half of them in the United States—have been hit by a new fast-moving variant of the Flashback Trojan malware that uses Javascript code rather than relying on user interaction, according to security researchers. Officials with security software company Intego said in an April 3 blog post that they found samples of the new Flashback Trojan March 23, and noted that the new malware—like the previous version discovered last year—uses two Java vulnerabilities, they said, one of which was patched by Apple April 3. The malware attacks Macs running the Mac OS X operating system. Bloggers from Russian security company Doctor Web said in a post April 4 that the new Flashback variant had compromised up to 550,000 Mac computers, more than 300,000 of which were in the United States and more than 106,000 in Canada.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Mac-Botnet-Infects-More-Than-600000-Apple-Computers-699749/
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