The time was gone when Apple computer are safe from malware’s, On Wednesday russian antivirus company repoted that 550,000 (but later that number was updated to 600,000) Mac OS X computers has been infected by “Flashback” Trojan.
Flashback Trojan started exploiting in Mac OS X through security hole in java and then steal personal information through web-browser and Java.
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. JavaScript code is used to load a Java-applet containing an exploit. Doctor Web’s virus analysts discovered a large number of web-sites containing the code.
According to above map, United States have largest infected users with 56.6% infected computers and Canada was second with 19.8 percent.
If you want to check your Mac was infected or not follow F-Secure instruction.
