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Security Bite: Infostealer malware spikes 28% among Mac users, says Jamf


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Each year, Jamf—the popular Apple device management platform—releases its Security 360: Annual Trends Report, which gives a broad outlook of the macOS threat landscape currently facing businesses and users. As I reported around this time last year, researchers uncovered an attempt by state-sponsored hackers from North Korea (DPRK) to target Mac users with an infostealer through a trojanized meeting app. Interestingly, Jamf’s report specifically mentions the abuse of PyInstaller, a legitimate open-source tool developers use to package Python scripts into standalone binaries.

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