600,000 Macs infected with Flashback Trojan and counting
A Russian security firm says it's found an alarming 600,000 OS X machines infected with the Flashback trojan.
The firm, called Dr Web, first said that it had found half a million infected computers but later upped the number in a tweeted message, where it added that some of the bots are in Cupertino.
In a blog post it said that it had studied the Trojan, called Backdoor.Flashback.39and found it on over 550,000 machines. The firm found these around the world with around 12 per cent of the haul in the UK, 19 per cent in Canada and over 50 per cent in the US. "Systems get infected with BackDoor.Flashback.39 after a user is redirected to a bogus site from a compromised resource or via a traffic distribution system," it said.
