Malware can take ugly leap forward to virtual machines
Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 04:30
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) -- A piece of malware categorized as a malicious rootkit can spread via an installer disguised as an Adobe Flash Player installer and is capable of spreading to four different platform environments, including Windows, Mac OSX, VMware virtual machines, and Windows Mobile devices. The news this week is that the malware, dubbed Crisis, not only affects Macs, as originally assumed, but these other systems as well. The discovery is an example of expert security companies building on each other’s efforts.