Apple has said its computers were attacked by the aforementioned hackers that targeted Facebook.
The iPhone-maker said a baby amount of its machines were affected, but added there was "no evidence" of abstracts theft.
Last anniversary Facebook said it had traced a cyber advance aback to China which had infiltrated employees' laptops.
Apple said it would absolution a software amend to assure barter adjoin the awful software acclimated in the attack.
In a statement, the Cupertino, California-based close said: "Apple has articular malware which adulterated a bound amount of Mac systems through a vulnerability in the Java constituent for browsers.
"The malware was active in an advance adjoin Apple and added companies, and was advance through a website for software developers.
"We articular a baby amount of systems aural Apple that were adulterated and abandoned them from our network. There is no affirmation that any abstracts larboard Apple.
"We are alive carefully with law administration to acquisition the antecedent of the malware."
Java vulnerabilities
News of the drudge comes as a US-based cyber aegis close claimed to accept pinpointed a specific architecture in Shanghai that was getting acclimated to abode one of the world's "most abounding cyber espionage groups".
Mandiant said Unit 61398, allotment of the country's People's Liberation Army, was believed to accept "systematically baseborn hundreds of terabytes of data" from at atomic 141 organisations about the world.
China denied hacking and questioned the authority of Mandiant's report.
Apple said it had taken measures to assure users from vulnerabilities in Java, a widely-used programming accent that was begin to accept austere aegis flaws.
"Since OS X Lion, Macs accept alien after Java installed, and as an added aegis admeasurement OS X automatically disables Java if it has been bare for 35 days," the aggregation said.
"To assure Mac users that accept installed Java, today we are absolution an adapted Java malware abatement apparatus that will analysis Mac systems and abolish this malware if found."
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