MacPersistenceChecker

MacPersistenceChecker See EVERYTHING that runs on your Mac. Understand WHY it runs. Decide WHAT stays. TL;DR MacPersistenceChecker shows you everything that runs automatically on your Mac , explains why it matters , and helps you decide what to keep or remove. → Find malware → Detect hidden...

Convuster: macOS adware now in Rust

Introduction Traditionally, most malicious objects detected on the macOS platform are adware: besides the already familiar Shlayer family, the TOP 10 includes Bnodlero, Cimpli, Adload and Pirrit adware. As a rule, most tend to be written in C, Objective-C or Swift. Recently, however, cybercrimina...

New Mac variant of Lazarus Dacls RAT distributed via Trojanized 2FA app

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi, Thomas Reed and Jérôme Segura. We recently identified what we believe is a new variant of the Dacls Remote Access Trojan RAT associated with North Korea's Lazarus group, designed specifically for the Mac operating system. Dacls is a RAT that was...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: LamePyre (OSX)

Summary MalwareBytes researcher Adam Thomas recently discovered a malicious MacOS application masquerading as the chat app Discord that they have named “LamePyre." Although it is made to look like a typical application installer, it does not attempt to appear legitimate by running a decoy install...