[NPMUG] Researcher: Hackers pay 43 cents per hijacked Mac

[Dave Sevick]

http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?newsid=27276&pagtype=allchandate

Gregg Keizer Computerworld

A network of Russian malware writers and spammers paid hackers 43  
cents for each Mac machine they infected with bogus video software, a  
sign that Macs have become attack targets, a security researcher said  
on Thursday.
In a presentation at the Virus Bulletin 2009 security conference in  
Geneva, Switzerland, Sophos researcher Dmitry Samosseiko discussed his  
investigation of the Russian “Partnerka,” a tangled collection of Web  
affiliates who rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars from spam and  
malware, most of the former related to phony drug sites, and much of  
the latter targeting Windows users with fake security software, or  
"scareware."

http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?newsid=27276&pagtype=allchandate



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