600,000 Macs infected with Flashback trojan
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More than half a million Macs around the world have been infected with variations of the Flashback trojan.
Flashback pinches user names and passwords by monitoring your network traffic.
Russian antivirus company Dr. Web claims that the growing botnet has infected 600,000 Macs with 274 bots located in Cupertino, home of Apple.
56.6 percent of the affected Macs are in the US, 19.8 percent in Canada and 12.8 in the UK.
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