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Oxford Muses on Mac Flashback: Worst Outbreak Since Blaster

So how bad was last month's Mac Flashback outbreak and who suffered the most? Our guess: it was bad, and university IT help desks.

And it looks like our guess might not be far off the mark.

===> Oxford University Computing Services' network security team (aka OxCERT) has written that they dealt "with what is probably the biggest outbreak since Blaster struck the Windows world all the way back in the summer of 2003." <===

OxCERT dealt with around 1000 incidents for Blaster. They've seen several hundred Flashback incidents… "and they keep on coming."

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From April to December 2011, there have been several dozen new Mac threats.

Well, that's nothing when compared to Windows malware — but it's definitely something when compared to the number of Mac threats seen prior to 2011.

We expect more of the same for 2012.

F-Secure Security Labs brings you the latest online security news from around the world. Ensure that you are up-to-date with the latest online threats to guarantee your online wellbeing.

We have created a free tool that automates the detection and removal of the widespread Flashback Mac OS X malware.

On Monday, I provided steps on how to avoid your Mac being compromised by the Flashback trojan. Today I will provide information on how to locate a Flashback infection.

To better understand the steps below, it is better to also know a bit about Flashback. It's an OS X malware family that modifies the content displayed by web browsers. To achieve this, it interposes functions used by the Mac's browsers.

The hijacked functions vary between variants but generally include CFReadStreamRead and CFWriteStreamWrite: read more...