Mac Flashback Attack Began With Wordpress Blogs

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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Re:In the end, it's better that it happened

[Anonymous Coward]

Where did you hear this? At the cooler in Redmond?

Re:In the end, it's better that it happened

[tao]

Now we just need a botnet for Hurd... 1 infected computer would be enough for, say... 100% of the user base :)

Re:In the end, it's better that it happened

[lister king of smeg]

no it could not infect linux equally well and not because of linuxs security but because of the user they are generally more computer savy and would have been less likely to execute random code. also iirc beleive linuxs gets jre updates sooner than mac and then would of been secure sooner.