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A new Mac malware combines a backdoor and a crypto-miner

Malwarebytes discovered a new strain of Mac malware, tracked as DarthMiner, that is a combination of two open-source programs. Malware is distributed through Adobe Zii, an application supposedly helps in the piracy of various Adobe programs. The malware was developed to run a shell script that downloads and executes a Python script. The script then downloads and runs an app named sample. app, that appears to be a version of Adobe ZII, most likely to appear as a harmless application. The code to download and install a root certificate for the mitmproxy tool was commented out indicating it was not active.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/78813/malware/mac-malware-backdoor-miner.html

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