Unprotected users visiting a page hosting the Flashback Trojan could be earning some serious cash for the malware s creators, according to new research from Symantec. The attackers redirect users from Google search results to pages of their own choosing, taking away clicks for Google and instead, generating an ad click for themselves. The most recent version of Flashback began infecting Mac machines last month via Java vulnerability exploits while an even more recent variant of the Trojan was found using Twitter as a backup command and control late last week.
Source: https://threatpost.com/flashback-creators-may-be-raking-10k-day-050112/76505/