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wraggster
April 4th, 2013, 18:58
"It was the malware which affected as many Apple computers as the Conficker worm affected Windows PCs and earned its creator up to $10,000 per day (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/453233/20130403/flashback-creator-unmasked-russian-cyber-criminal-maxim.htm). Until now, no one know who was behind the Flashback Trojan which hit 650,000 computers last year, but security researcher Brian Krebs has managed to uncover the creator (http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/04/who-wrote-the-flashback-os-x-worm/)as a 30-year-old Russian cyber criminal."

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/04/04/0056259/russian-cyber-criminal-unmasked-as-creator-of-most-successful-apple-malware