WordPress Utility Redirects Mac OS X Users To Flashback Trojan. (Image: Juan Pablo Olmo, via Flickr / CC)

Kaspersky Lab has reported that exposed WordPress websites have been redirecting visitors to malevolent program hosts that carry Flashback trojan to infect Mac OS X systems.
The security firm claimed on its report that compromised WordPress blog sites pushed visitors to servers laden with malware, particularly those sites with credulous web administrators who installed a utility called …

Flashback Trojan reduced to 140,000 Mac OS X infections. (Image: Blake Patterson, via Flickr / CC)

The Flashback Trojan epidemic across hundreds of thousands of Mac OS X computers is gradually falling and has now cut down from roughly 600,000 to around 140,000 infected units.
According to a blog post from security firm Symantec, the infection count is waning daily, thanks to firms that provide cleanup tools and Apple’s recently released patch.
Symantec, however, notes that while numbers are …