{"id":3629,"date":"2012-01-13T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2019-05-17T21:49:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T04:49:38","slug":"friday-the-13th-malware-new-flashback-trojan-horse-variant-follows-apples-xprotect-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/friday-the-13th-malware-new-flashback-trojan-horse-variant-follows-apples-xprotect-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday the 13th Malware: New Flashback Trojan Horse Variant Follows Apple’s Xprotect Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple has recently updated its Xprotect file quarantine system, used to check for malware downloaded by certain programs – notably Safari, Mail and iChat – but Intego has spotted a new variant of the Flashback Trojan horse, called OSX\/FlashBack.J. This variant was released after Apple’s update, and Xprotect does not recognize it yet.<\/p>\n


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Apple has recently updated its Xprotect file quarantine system, used to check for malware downloaded by certain programs – notably Safari, Mail and iChat – but Intego has spotted a new variant of the Flashback Trojan horse, called OSX\/FlashBack.J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[190],"tags":[57,153,86,132,303],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n