Monday, October 6, 2014

Apple and Reddit Shut Down the iWorm Botnet

Apple and Reddit Shut Down the iWorm Botnet


Last week, a Russian security firm discovered that over 17,000 Mac computers had been infected with a malicious software called iWorm that connected infected devices to a botnet by using Reddit to unearth links to command servers. This weekend, both Apple and Reddit took measures that rendered the software ineffective.


Read more...




















from Gizmodo http://ift.tt/1uSxilU

via IFTTT

No comments:

Post a Comment