Showing posts with label botnet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label botnet. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Apple tasted the first huge botnet attack



Last week Apple got its first taste of what Microsoft security goes through on a daily basis and its response was a big, fat fail.

Apple tried to take out the security researcher who told Apple it had a security problem, reports Forbes.

A Russian antivirus company, Dr. Web, said it had discovered a Mac botnet built oon malware known as the Flashback trojan. Dr. Web had found 600,000 infected Macs in the botnet, including a couple hundred in Cupertino, CA, home to Apple headquarters, reports Ars Technica. That's the biggest Mac botnet ever discovered.

source from Business Insider | read more at http://read.bi/I2319r