Flashfake Mac OS X botnet

Kaspersky Lab’s experts recently analyzed Flashfake, a massive botnet that infected more than 670,000 computers worldwide, and concluded that more than 98% of the infected computers were running a version of Mac OS X. To infect victims’ computers, the cyber criminals were installing a Flashfake Trojan by exploiting vulnerabilities in Java.

The mystery of Duqu

Duqu is a sophisticated Trojan which seems to have been written by the same people who created the infamous Stuxnet worm. Its main purpose is to act as a backdoor into the system and facilitate the theft of private information.

Botnets

Mobile malware

The evolution of malware for various mobile platforms is still in progress. Since their emergence, these threats have passed through several evolutionary stages. At first, we had to deal with primitive worms and numerous PoCs. Today, the overwhelming majority of malware for mobile OSs is created solely for the purpose of making money illegally.