SabPub, New Trojan Ready to Attack Mac Computer

SabPub Attack Mac Computer

The news about 650 thousand infected Mac computer by a Trojan virus called Flashback is still fresh in memory. However, it has not disappeared completely, even the new virus variant was reported ready to threaten.

Anti-virus software provider Kaspersky Lab reports a Trojan named SabPub or suspected Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a its official name is being spread through Java and can infect a computer when someone opens an email message with malicious links that direct users to malware.

"Trojan Flashback and SabPub very different," said the head of Kaspersky Lab security experts. "SabPub is a classic Trojan backdoor that opens full access to the attacker to the victim system. Flashback and variants and derivatives are clickjacking bot downloader, which means he is practicing fraud clicks with someone hijacks search results on search engines within their web broser. "

"The latest version SabPub Trojan can infect more users than the previous version, which appeared earlier this year," said Gostev.

Gostev also stressed that SabPub been used to attack specific targets. "It seems that the attacker has a list of selected victims who are not too many," he said.

Although Mac users still tend to think they are safe from the virus, Kaspersky Lab warns that before 2012 about 300 variants of Mac malware has been detected. Today, more than 70 were detected in three months.