• • • • 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. The OSX/Flshplyr-A Trojan horse (called “Flashback” by our friends at Intego, who ), is disguised as an installer for the popular Adobe Flash program. Mac Users Attacked Again by Fake Adobe Flash Update. Posted on April 12th, 2016 by Graham Cluley. Mac users are once again being urged to exercise caution when installing updates to Adobe Flash Player, after a fake update was discovered infecting computers. Adobe advises that everyone else should update “via the update mechanism within the product” or by getting a freshly minted copy of its player from the Adobe Flash Player Download Center. Once in place, Trojan horse could allow a remote hacker to gain access to your computer or download further malicious code to your Mac. Sophos products, including Sophos’s, detects the Flashback malware as OSX/FlshPlyr-A. It’s easy to imagine how cybercriminals could trick Mac users into infecting their computers with this malware. For 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. Of course, rather than the genuine Flash you would be installing the Trojan horse. Similar tricks have certainly worked well in the past – against both Windows and Mac users. Here’s a video of another malware attack that tripped up Mac and Windows users, by duping them into installing a fake update to watch a sex movie of Leighton Meester: (Enjoy this video? You can check out more on the and subscribe if you like) Maybe now you can see just how easy it is for some folks to fall for this kind of trick. ![]() This is just one example of if happening in real life, there have been plenty of others. Flashback is just the latest example of Mac malware follows hot on the heels of another Trojan horse for the OS X platform. The OSX/Revir-B Trojan was discovered, displaying a as a distraction while it did its dirty work. We all know that there is much much more malware written for Windows than there is for Mac OS X. But that doesn’t mean it’s non-existent, and it’s no excuse for leaving Apple Macs unprotected. Is fully-functioning and free for home use. What have you got to lose? • Follow for the latest computer security news. • Follow for exclusive pics, gifs, vids and LOLs! Since I’m not working full time right now, I thank God that they Mac version is free. I have it and Norton running after I inadvertently clicked through to a NARCA electronic transfer email. Hopefully it was one of those that would tell me I needed to update Adobe Flash or it was an.exe malware. The only “tsk” they may deserve is not informing what kind of malware this e-mail would have exposed me to, since they did mention it in may. They can’t give everything away for free, they do need to make money.
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