Google pocket hit by Mac Virus

 

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The server infected by a Virus.

Google has been infected by a virus which is a computer program that can replicate itself and can spread from one computer to another .This Virus has been infecting Macintosh computers and now is picking on Google’s pocket by hacking advertising ‘’Clicks’’, which cost as much as R10.000 on a daily basis. A component of the widespread flashback virus targets Google search queries made using Chrome, Safari or Firefox and directs people to pages dictated by the hackers. Those clicking online ads can be re-routed to websites of different merchants or publisher, with hackers getting paid 8c or more that would have been paid to Google. According to Google it has never received the intended ad ‘’click’’ and this ultimately results in lost revenue for Google and untold sums of money for the flashback gang. Fortunately Apple is collaborating with  internet service providers to disable this command and control the network. Hackers tricked Macintosh users into downloading the virus by disguising it as an update to Adobe flash video viewing software.  The software does its dirty work with directions received from the computer hackers. This will make Macintosh  loose its customers as they will realize sooner what is  going on. Although Mac is running faster in technologies but their security mindset is behind that is why they have so many hacking incidents so far. The  bad things  have learned from doing this attack in the personal computer (pc) world is now starting to transition into the Macintosh world.Mac users are advised to install the latest update from Apple to limit the vulnerability of allowing hackers to steal sensitive information.So this is a lesson that we should be more careful about what we click on whenever visiting Google to avoid being hacked.