Web Exploit Found That Customizes Attack For Windows, Mac, and Linux

phaedrus5001 writes with this quote from Ars: "Security researchers have found a live Web exploit that detects if the target is running Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux and drops a different trojan for each platform. The attack was spotted by researchers from antivirus provider F-Secure on a Columbian transport website, presumably after third-party attackers compromised it. The unidentified site then displayed a signed Java applet that checked if the user's computer is running Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux. Based on the outcome, the attack then downloads the appropriate files for each platform."

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Re:Blah

[sconeu]

Never. Netcraft has confirmed it... BSD is dead.

Re:COLOMBIAN....not "Columbian"

[MightyYar]

Since you are pedantic and might actually know why you are correcting someone - why is it that we can anglicize certain country names and not others. Why is it perfectly proper to Make Colon's name into Columbus, but the country named after him retains the "o" when spelled in English, even though place names inside of the US with the same origin are spelled with a "u"? We spell Brasil as Brazil, for instance.