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Hackers Get 43 Cents for Every Hijacked Mac

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 26, 2009 1:44 PM CDT

(Newser) – Mac users, beware: the Russians are after you. A notorious network of spammers in the country pays hackers 43 cents for every Mac they infect with fake software, an investigator says. At a security conference in Switzerland, the researcher laid out a specific scheme to...   Read full story »

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