Showing posts with label Mac Flashback. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mac Flashback. Show all posts

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Mac OS XJava Flaw

According to Dr.Web more than 55,000 Macs are infected with the so-called Flashback Trojan. The vulnerability that the attackers are using is with the Java for OS X Lion. (CVE-2012-0507)

My .02:  With the popularity of Apple products going up and up, it was only a matter of time that attacks started shifting (even ever so slightly). While MS boxes have been and will be targets for a long time, the Mac world has been slowly becoming into focus for attackers.  However, I'd suspect there to be a bigger attacker push into the mobile platforms rather than Mac in the coming year(s). Mobile platforms (iOS & Android) are more ubiquitous by far and more people would have a cell phone than a computer of any sort. Besides, people do stuff on their phones they would never do on their computer...the weak link gets weaker...

More reading:

Ars Technica - Mac Flashback trojan exploits unpatched Java vulnerability, no password needed

Krebs on Security - Urgent Fix for Zero-Day Mac Java Flaw