Similar tricks have certainly worked well in the past – against both Windows and Mac users. Of course, rather than the genuine Flash you would be installing the Trojan horse. It’s easy to imagine how cybercriminals could trick Mac users into infecting their computers with this malware.įor instance, it would be child’s play to create a website which pretends to show something salacious (“Scarlett Johansson nude video!” would probably do well at the moment, for instance) and then when you try to view it, you’re prompted to install an update to Adobe Flash. Sophos products, including Sophos’s free anti-virus for Mac home users, detects the Flashback malware as OSX/FlshPlyr-A. Once in place, Trojan horse could allow a remote hacker to gain access to your computer or download further malicious code to your Mac. The OSX/Flshplyr-A Trojan horse (called “Flashback” by our friends at Intego, who first publicised it), is disguised as an installer for the popular Adobe Flash program. Mac users are once again being reminded to keep their anti-virus software up-to-date, following the discovery of a Trojan horse that poses as an update to Adobe Flash.
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