A few weeks ago we told you that a new type of Trojan made to resemble the installation menu of Adobe's flash player affects Mac owners. Well, here it is now it appeared a second trojan that does exactly the same thing and is known as flashback. The security company Intego announced today to users about the existence of this new type of trojan that basically tricks users into thinking they are installing Adobe's flash player when in reality they are installing a trojan that sends information from our Mac to a server, but for now it has not its true functionality was discovered.
Intego reported that the Flashback malware is available on some sites that offer a link or icon to install Flash Player; Lion users may be vulnerable to the scam because the operating system does not automatically include Flash. If users do click on the malicious link in Safari—launching the Mac OS X Installer—the software deactivates some security code, then deletes the original installation package. The malware then sends information about the infected Mac back to a remote server. Intego analysts are still investigating Flashback's purposes.
The good part is that users can easily protect themselves against this type of malware by simply avoiding downloading installers from various sites on the Internet. If you want to install flash player for Adobe then visit Adobe.com where you can download the real versions of Adobe's programs and you can be sure that you will not be infected by anything.
