If it’s the latter, though, it won’t really be surprising since Flash Player is one of the least secure programs out there. They also believe that the malware targets the biomedical industry specifically and may have been used to spy on scientific research.ĭark Reading points out that no one knows exactly how Fruitfly ended up in the research center’s computer, adding that it could have been “dropped via some sort of Trojan” or transmitted “via an Adobe Flash Player”. However, the Malwarebytes team believes that it has been around since 2014 or earlier, although its creation date is not really clear. Nicknamed “Fruitfly”, it was found in a Mac computer owned by an unnamed biomedical research center, and it was detected only because it was producing unusually high volumes of traffic. One such malware was discovered in January by the Malwarebytes team.
