A new family of cyber-espionage malware used via a Safari exploit was used against politically active, pro-democracy residents of Hong Kong, in August. A new, full-featured backdoor put out by unknown but technically adroit is quite complex and had more than 1,000 lines of code once formatted nicely, researchers say. ESET researchers also found it notable that DazzleSpy enforces end-to-end encryption and that the backdoor abstains from communicating with its command-and-control (C2) server.”]
Source: https://threatpost.com/macos-malware-dazzlespy-watering-hole-attacks/177943/