Our colleagues at Sentinel Labs have again provided expert collection and analysis on the 2024 macOS Malware. Across 2024, researchers saw a sharp rise in malware campaigns aimed at macOS users in the enterprise. From infostealers masquerading as business and productivity apps to sophisticated modular backdoors, not to mention plenty of APT activity, threat actors were busier than ever developing and deploying malware to compromise organizations and steal sensitive data.
Linl to full report:
A cryptocurrency mining campaign targeting macOS is using malware that has evolved into a complex variant giving researchers a lot of trouble analyzing it. The malware is tracked as OSAMiner and has been in the wild since at least 2015. Analyzing it has been difficult because payloads are exported as run-only AppleScript files, which makes decompiling them into source code difficult.
OSAMiner is a typical Trojan which mainly cause system vulnerability on PCs to help hackers’ remote attack. Use
