Download the latest version of Angry Birds and you could find yourself as cheesed off as one of the game’s flapping heroes.

Versions of Angry Birds Space – the new version of the hit puzzle game – are infected with malicious software that allows cyber-criminals full control of infected handsets.
Hidden inside a fully working version of the game, a trojan quietly installs malicious code that can be used to steal personal information such as banking details – and even use Android phones as part of mass cyber attacks against other websites.

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Patch your Mac!

Over 600,000 Apple Macs have reportedly been infected with a Trojan virus called “Flashback” worldwide.

Initial reports had claimed that some 550,000 Macs were infected with Flashback, but a Russian internet security firm, Dr Web, upgraded this number to over 600,000.

But Flashback isn’t new, and was uncovered in September 2011. Originally designed to disguise itself as an Adobe Flash Player installer, it used Adobe Flash player logos to help conceal its true identity.

The 2012 variant of Flashback takes advantage of a Java runtime flaw found in OSX.

Even though Flashback has been a known security issue for months, the vulnerability had remained unpatched by Apple, even though other players (including Oracle and Microsoft) had released a fix for the vulnerability earlier this year. Apple have since distributed a patch earlier this week – after early reports began to emerge about the latest Flashback variant.