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macOS Invisible Mouse Clicks Attack Allows to Bypass Kernel Protection

A researcher uncovered a flaw in High Sierra OS that two consecutive synthetic mouse down events were incorrectly interpreted the programmatic clicks as a manual approval by High Sierra. Apple disables these kinds of mouse clicks for users to interact with UI and blocking the malware to performing programmatic click. The vulnerability was demonstrated during the Def Con 2018 regarding the Zero-day vulnerability that discovered in. the. vulnerability that allows let an attacker access the kernel using invisible mouse clicks. The attacker can virtually click a security prompt and thus load a. kernel extension.”]

Source: https://gbhackers.com/macos-invisible-mouse-clicks-zero-day/

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