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Another Mac Flashback variant out, but still uses same (patched) vulnerability

by Mike Schramm (Apr 24th, 2012)

We're not quite done with Flashback yet. The good news is that the number of Macs affected by the trojan has gone down greatly, but the bad news is that there's a new variant of it out in the public. It's called Flashback.S, and just like the original, it can worm its way into a Mac's home ...

Hours after security update, new MacDefender variant evades it

by Mike Schramm (Jun 1st, 2011)

And the cycle continues. Yes, just hours after Apple released a security update designed to smack down the recently-prevalent MacDefender malware, ZDnet's Ed Bott reports that a new variant of the bogus 'security' software has been released into the wild. This version is called "Mdinstall.pkg" ...