{"id":247,"date":"2024-02-29T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2024-03-28T13:16:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T13:16:37","slug":"security-bite-self-destructing-macos-malware-strain-disguised-as-legitimate-mac-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/security-bite-self-destructing-macos-malware-strain-disguised-as-legitimate-mac-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Bite: Self-destructing macOS malware strain disguised as legitimate Mac app"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/self-destruct-app.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Security researchers at Moonlock, the relatively new cybersecurity wing of MacPaw, have detected a new strain of macOS <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/malware\/\">malware<\/a> disguised as a legitimate Mac app that can destroy itself in certain conditions. At its worst, it can unknowingly extract cookies from <a href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/safari\">Safari<\/a> and Chrome, contacts from Address Book, and passwords from installed password managers. Meet Empire Transfer\u2026<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p><em>9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/mosyle.net\/87PQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Mosyle,\u00a0the only Apple Unified Platform<\/strong>.<\/a> <em>Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automated Hardening &amp; Compliance, Next Generation EDR, AI-powered Zero Trust, and exclusive Privilege Management with the most powerful and modern Apple MDM on the market. The result is a totally automated Apple Unified Platform currently trusted by over 45,000 organizations to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. <\/em><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mosyle.net\/87PQ\">Request your EXTENDED TRIAL<\/a><\/em><\/strong><em> today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/02\/29\/security-bite-self-destructing-macos-malware-strain-disguised-as-legitimate-mac-app\/#more-935850\" data-post-id=\"935850\" data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,malware,security-bite\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify mb-2\" >Security researchers at Moonlock, the relatively new cybersecurity wing of MacPaw, have detected a new strain of macOS malware disguised as a legitimate Mac app that can destroy itself in certain conditions. At its worst, it can unknowingly extract cookies from Safari and Chrome, contacts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}