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The Flashback threat represents new phase in Mac malware -- one that follows the surging popularity of the Mac platform

By Roger A. Grimes
APRIL 13, 2012

Well, it finally happened. Many security experts, including me, have predicted that the growing popularity of Apple's Mac platform would subject it to the same global-level malware threats that plague Microsoft Windows users. If current reports of the Flashback Java malware epidemic are to be believed, at least 600,000 Macs were infected, which amounts to about 1 in every 100 Macs. (Symantec now reports that still-infected Macs number about 270,000. And Apple yesterday released via its Software Update utility a Java update that also removes the malware from infected Macs.) This follows on previous large infections from MacDefender and its variants.

The obscurity that granted Macs lower risk for unauthorized manipulation is now gone.

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