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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.'"

2 of 103 comments (clear)

  1. Re:In the end, it's better that it happened by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  2. Re:In the end, it's better that it happened by tao · · Score: 5, Funny

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