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Mac Flashback Attack Began With Wordpress Blogs

Posted by timothy on from the slashcode-was-lower-on-their-target-list dept.

With more on the Flashback malware plaguing many Macs, beaverdownunder writes with some explanation of how the infection grew so quickly: "Alexander Gostev, head of the global research and analysis team at Kaspersky, says that 'tens of thousands of sites powered by WordPress were compromised. How this happened is unclear. The main theories are that bloggers were using a vulnerable version of WordPress or they had installed the ToolsPack plug-in.'"

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  1. Re:In the end, it's better that it happened by Chrisq · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    True. Anybody with half a brain knew this of course.

    And now the Mac fanbois know it too.