Tag: Apple

A new malicious campaign is targeting macOS developers with fake Homebrew, LogMeIn, and TradingView platforms that deliver infostealing malware like AMOS (Atomic macOS Stealer) and Odyssey. The campaign employs “ClickFix” techniques where targets are tricked into executing commands in Terminal, infecting themselves with malware. Homebrew is a popular open-source package management system that makes it easier to install […]

Microsoft Threat Intelligence reports that a new variant of the XCSSET macOS malware has been detected in limited attacks, incorporating several new features, including enhanced browser targeting, clipboard hijacking, and improved persistence mechanisms. XCSSET is a modular macOS malware that acts as an infostealer and cryptocurrency stealer, stealing Notes, cryptocurrency wallets, and browser data from […]

A new infostealer malware targeting Mac devices, called ‘Shamos,’ is targeting Mac devices in ClickFix attacks that impersonate troubleshooting guides and fixes. The new malware, which is a variant of the Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS), was developed by the cybercriminal group “COOKIE SPIDER,” and is used to steal data and credentials stored in web browsers, […]

Apple has released emergency updates to patch another zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in an “extremely sophisticated attack.” Tracked as CVE-2025-43300, this security flaw is caused by an out-of-bounds write weakness discovered by Apple security researchers in the Image I/O framework, which enables applications to read and write most image file formats. An out-of-bounds write […]

Apple has added a new security feature with the iOS 18.1 update released last month to ensure that iPhones automatically reboot after long idle periods to re-encrypt data and make it harder to extract. While the company has yet to officially confirm this new “inactivity reboot” feature, law enforcement officers were the first to discover […]

Two Chinese nationals were sentenced to prison for scamming Apple out of more than $2.5 million after exchanging over 6,000 counterfeit iPhones for authentic ones. Between July 2017 and December 2019, Haotian Sun, Pengfei Xue, and their co-conspirators, Wen Jin Gao and Dian Luo, exploited Apple’s device replacement policy to replace non-functioning fake iPhones for […]

Users of macOS 15 ‘Sequoia’ are reporting network connection errors when using certain endpoint detection and response (EDR) or virtual private network (VPN) solutions, and web browsers. The issues are resolved when these tools are deactivated, indicative of incomptibility issues with the network stack. Impacted users on Reddit are describing problems with CrowdStrike Falcon and […]