If you’re a developer using Xcode, you’ll need to be a little more careful for a while. A new backdoor piece of malware that aims to compromise Apple developers’ Macs with a trojanized Xcode project. This malware can record victims’ microphone, camera, keyboard, and also upload/download files. The first in the wild example of the […]
The Silver Sparrow malware is out in the wild. And no one quite seems to know what it does. Over the weekend, news surfaced of a mysterious new pieced of malware called “Silver Sparrow” that had infected 30,000 computers to date. There’s also a version of it built for the new M1-based Macs. To date, […]
It’s not the cheeriest news, but it was bound to happen eventually. A piece of malware specifically designed to run on Apple’s new M1 chip has been discovered, indicating that malware authors have begun adapting malicious software for Apple’s new generation of Macs with Apple silicon. Per Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle, a malicious Safari […]
Amid last week’s slew of updates, Apple released something you might definitely need in the form of the macOS Catalina 10.15.7 supplemental updates, which includes the following fixes and changes: FontParser Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of reports that an exploit […]
Another reason not to trust heavily in pirated software. Per Thomas Reed of Malwarebytes, a new piece of macOS ransomware has been located online. The software, termed “OSX.EvilQuest,” poses as a Google Software Update app, and was found inside a pirated Mac tool called Little Snitch. Another one was found in DJ software Mixed In Key 8. […]