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...

Homebrew: Homebrew installed LaunchDaemons create simple root esclations

Many programs installed via Homebrew require services to function as expected - most of the time these are LaunchAgents but sometimes they need to run as root via LaunchDaemons to function properly. While Homebrew attempts to secure the executables run by the LaunchDaemons that it installs, any...

Privilege escalation

Little Snitch version 3.0 through 3.7.3 suffer from a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the installer part. The vulnerability is related to the installation of the configuration file "at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist" which gets installed to /Library/LaunchDaemons...

CVE-2017-2675

Little Snitch version 3.0 through 3.7.3 suffer from a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the installer part. The vulnerability is related to the installation of the configuration file "at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist" which gets installed to /Library/LaunchDaemons...

Permanent Reverse TCP Backdoor for IPhone and IPad

Security Expert from Coresec explains the use of a Permanent Reverse TCP Backdoor "sbd-1.36" for IPhone and IPad developed by Michel Blomgren. sbd is a Netcat-clone, designed to be portable and offer strong encryption. It runs on Unix-like operating systems and on Microsoft Win32. sbd features...