Normal-everyday users are still going to go around infecting themselves…and things designed to protect them Gatekeeper/AV etc, really don’t offer any help.” But now most Mac adware/malware is just signed with certs. fake flash updaters)….which is a great idea. “So we’ve got Gatekeeper that’s designed to block unsigned code from the internet to prevent users from getting tricked into installing malware (e.g.
“In a nutshell, I think the issue isn’t that anything here is incredible new or exciting more that existing security/mitigation strategies are rather failing miserably,” Wardle explained. The Mac Malware has been improved across the months, new features were implemented such as an MAC-address-based anti-VM detection system and components of Mughthesec are signed with a legitimate Apple developer certificate allowing it to bypass the Gatekeeper protection that normally prevents the installation of unsigned applications.
Made it to blog post #32! ? Read: 'WTF is Mughthesec!? Poking on a Piece of Undetected Adware' ?☠️? #adware #malware Other malware experts claim the threat has been in the wild at least since six months, but the detection rate on VirusTotal is still low.
