Trojan infects more than half a million Macs

Russian antivirus company Dr. Web announced that variations of the Flashback trojan have infected more than half a million Macs around the globe. According to the company there are around 600,000 infected Mac machines with this particular Trojan, most of which are located in the United States and Canada.

While Flashback first appeared about six months ago, infecting only older Java installations, the new version exploits a vulnerability that's been around for about six weeks and attacks more up to date versions too.

Dr. Web describes the Mac trojan like this:

"JavaScript code is used to load a Java-applet containing an exploit... The exploit saves an executable file onto the hard drive of the infected Mac machine. The file is used to download malicious payload from a remote server and to launch it...It may get and run any executable specified in a directive received from a server."

Users can find the new version of Java that patches the security hole here.

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