Recently discovered OSX.Dummy mac malware is targeting the cryptocurrency community

guest · Jun 30, 2018

Recently discovered OSX.Dummy mac malware is targeting the cryptocurrency community
The former NSA white hat hacker and malware researcher Patrick Wardle analyzed a new mac malware dubbed OSX.Dummy that targets the cryptocurrency community.
June 30, 2018
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/74023/cyber-crime/osx-dummy-cryptocurrency.html

The popular experts decided to analyze the malicious code after the security researcher Remco Verhoef (@remco_verhoef) posted an interesting entry to SANS ‘InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog’ titled “Crypto community target of MacOS malware.”
“Previous days we’ve seen multiple MacOS malware attacks, originating within crypto related Slack or Discord chats groups by impersonating admins or key people. Small snippets are being shared, resulting in downloading and executing a malicious binary.” wrote Verhoef.

Verhoef noticed that the attack was originating within crypto related Slack or Discord chats groups by impersonating admins or key people.

Wardle noticed that the malicious binary is not signed, this means it would be blocked by GateKeeper, but attackers overwhelmed this limitation by making the victims to download and run the binary directly via terminal commands. [...]
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