Flashback Mac Trojan

Trog Dog · Apprentice Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 282

http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/newsbusiness/aap/8447669/hackers-hitting-macs-with-virus-industry

energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2022 Location: Germany

and security experts have for years warned that macs are much easier targets. With apple being very bad at closing holes and a mostly none existing security framework.
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_brian_ · n00b Joined: 02 Aug 2011 Posts: 16

Adobe software as an attack vector. How surprising I never would have guessed. :roll:

Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 657 Location: Germany

I'm not an expert on malware, but over at the Heise forum people claim that flashback is old hat (being around since 2007) and that it is non-functional.
Dunno if it is right or the usual macfag denial. I mean, if these infections were found by redirecting some of the botnet requests to their own servers and extrapolating, there must be some macs in those botnets, I assume, thus the trojan works.
But what do I know?
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BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1488 Location: U.S.A.

McAfee makes antivirus software for the Macintosh. They want to sell it. People have been yammering for over a decade that Macs are about to be threatened by viruses to a degree similar to Windows machines, and it has never happened. There have been a pittance of cases, and this is one. What's far more likely to be hit is the iPhone and iPad, and even they are barely being touched compared to Android.
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energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2022 Location: Germany

BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1488 Location: U.S.A.

I'm not a Mac fan-boy. How does one botnet make what I said stupid? It doesn't. It makes what I said accurate.

Do you have any conception of how many vast Windows-based botnets are operating?

Whether one is theoretically or technically harder or easier to infect is obviously either not true or not the over-riding variable, since Macs are still far less likely to be infected by malware. Pick a random Windows machine and the odds are that it's infected with something, is loaded with cruft, and is bogged down by all the anti-malware utilities that must be run on it just to keep it alive.
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notageek · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:32 am Post subject:

"Huge Mac botnet attacks!"

Huge? Where?
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pjp · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 2:31 am Post subject:

Too many apples and you're bound to have a Big Mac attack.

Plus I like their response by trying to shut down the security firm's site. Petty, stupid and or clueless.
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energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2022 Location: Germany

notageek · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:49 pm Post subject:

So?
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