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Flashback trojan infects 550,000 Macs worldwide

Apple‘s products have, so far been secure from worms, viruses and hackers, until now. A trojan going by the ...

April 07, 2012 / 15:45 IST

Apple’s products have, so far been secure from worms, viruses and hackers, until now. A trojan going by the name of Flashback has been infecting Macs off late and experts are calling it the worst security disaster to have hit Macs. Almost 5,50,000 Macs have been estimated to have been infected, so far. The Flashback trojan is said to have been spreading around the world over the past two months. Its target is Macs and Macbooks running the OS X platform. Dr. Web, a popular Russian security solution vendor has the break-up and details of the trojan's reach. The U.S has the majority of all infected Macs with some 56.6 percent of infections followed by Canada and the United Kingdom. Click here for full story

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first published: Apr 7, 2012 03:37 pm

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