550,000-strong army of Mac zombies spreads across world | Apple, Mac, MacOS, iOS4, iPad, iPhone and (in)security... | Scoop.it

Infected machines, not blank-eyed shuffling fanbois

 

The Mac-specific Flashback Trojan created a zombie army of 550,000 Mac machines by exploiting a Java hole that Apple only patched on Tuesday, six weeks after Microsoft plugged it up on Windows machines.

 

Additional payloads downloaded by the malware included a ===> data-stealing Trojan that attempts to lift passwords and banking information from Safari as well as a search-hijacking tool. <===