{"id":48478,"date":"2012-04-24T08:58:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T06:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=48478"},"modified":"2012-04-24T08:59:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T06:59:37","slug":"new-flashback-malware-version-starts-spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/48478-new-flashback-malware-version-starts-spreading.html","title":{"rendered":"New Flashback malware version starts spreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>A new variant of the Flashback malware which has infected hundreds of thousands of Mac computers has been found by security researchers<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed Flashback.S, the new variant is spreading online, targeting a <a title=\"Java\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/422412-Java\">Java<\/a> exploit that <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> has already patched, according to security company, Intego<\/p>\n<p>Flashback.S installs itself in a user\u2019s home folder without a password, before deleting all files and folders from the Java cache folder to mask its presence on the machine<\/p>\n<p>Flashback rose to the public\u2019s attention when Russian security firm, Dr Web revealed that it had infected as many as 600,000 Mac computers which were part of a large-scale botnet<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent reports by security firms such as <a title=\"Symantec\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/286761-Symantec\">Symantec<\/a> have noted that the malware is still found on 140,000 machines, though Dr Web disputes this, saying that the malware is in fact still present on around 650,000 devices<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1009_3-57419603-83\/new-flashback-variant-making-the-rounds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new version of the infamous Flashback malware for Mac computers is doing the rounds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":24671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,10488,10976,10582],"class_list":["post-48478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-flashback","tag-intego","tag-java"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48480,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48478\/revisions\/48480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}