Researchers from ParetoLogic are reporting on a newly discovered Mac OS X malware variant posing as fake video ActiveX object [paretologic.com] found at a bogus Macintosh PortTube site. The use of fake video codecs is a social engineering tactic exclusively used by malware targeting Windows. Researchers have spotted notable code overlap between the Sunburst backdoor and a known Turla weapon. Researchers at Recorded Future report a rise in cracked Cobalt Strike and other open-source adversarial tools.
Source: https://threatpost.com/mac-os-x-malware-posing-fake-video-codec-061109/72802/