The study was published to coincide with Infosec - an annual security conference in London.

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InfoSec Sellout, the hacker(s) behind that claimed OS X worm we mentioned yesterday, has kinda-sorta disappeared from the Internets.

ENGADGET: InfoSec Sellout disappears, worm now claimed to affect OS X 10.4.10

And then on June 17, 2010 VirusBlokAda, a little infosec company in Belarus discovered a new piece of malware that exploited a heretofore unknown Windows vulnerability via removable flash drives.

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Read -- InfoSec Sellout's identity?

ENGADGET: InfoSec Sellout disappears, worm now claimed to affect OS X 10.4.10

You listening InfoSec Sellout?

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