Some time ago, the malware has infected many Flashback Mac computers. The authors who are behind have accumulated as much as $ 10,000 per day through an ingenious system.
The hackers responsible for the malware Flashback , a Trojan horse that had the target Mac computers, fired some nice profits for their misdeeds. This is the conclusion reached by the specialized site Symantec, relayed Generation NT.
In the PC itself, the malware came from a fake update of Adobe Flash Player, which is known to be used for watching videos. Once the virus is on the hard drive, the attacker can tap without much trouble bank details and passwords. Apple responded to it and of course, removed the first vulnerability. After this "shock" was overcome only once, it was not long until the next disaster came. It has been detected a new Trojan horse that drives under the name "PubSab" mischief. The procedure is similar, because the Trojans took advantage of vulnerability in Java. On the drive, it came across Word documents, which were mostly annexed by e-mail.
Using a Java vulnerability that Apple has been slow to fill, there is attracting a lot of criticisms, hackers have managed to divert a portion of advertising revenues Google, up to $ 10,000 per day. A substantial amount but is easily explained. Thus, attackers hijacked advertising revenues that should have come back to Google, to the tune of $ 0.08 per click.
According to Symantec, a component of the virus "Flashback" is the search engine Google's browser Chrome, Safari, or Firefox, and redirect users to pages controlled by hackers who then get commissions advertising theoretically supposed to return to Google to the tune of about 8 cents per click. Which can amount to a 0000 dollars falling into the hands of pirates instead of those of the giant internet every day, Symantec has calculated, based on hundreds of thousands of infected computers.
Apple last month launched a "patch" designed to overcome the virus Flashback infesting Mac, having identified a flaw in Java programs. The virus is under the command of computer servers "hosted by malicious authors" and Apple is working with ISPs to "disable the network".
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