Is macOS’s new XProtect behavioural security preparing to go live?

1PW · Sep 5, 2023

Until early last year, there was one XProtect, sets of rules that, among other things, tried to detect known malware during Gatekeeper checks on apps and other code. Then in March 2022, Ventura silently added a second XProtect, this time a set of scanning modules run at least once a day to detect known malware and remove it. Since June last year, that XProtect Remediator has rapidly matured, to the point where it now looks for 19 different types of malware on macOS 10.15 and later, and is updated at least once a month.

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Rasheed187 · Sep 5, 2023

Using those lists of exceptions, five Bastion rules are built as filters:

excludes other processes from accessing private data for Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari;

excludes other processes from accessing private data for Messages, Microsoft Teams, Slack and WhatsApp;

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Now this sounds interesting, I hope that third party tools will also be able to offer the same stuff.

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