{"id":42763,"date":"2024-04-05T19:12:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T23:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42763"},"modified":"2024-04-05T19:12:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T23:12:31","slug":"macs-targeted-by-infostealer-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/05\/macs-targeted-by-infostealer-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Macs Targeted by Infostealer Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamf.com\/blog\/infostealers-pose-threat-to-macos\/\">Jamf Threat Labs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.jamf.com\/blog\/infostealers-pose-threat-to-macos\/\"><p>While searching for &ldquo;Arc Browser&rdquo; on Google, it was brought to our attention that following the sponsored result for what seems to be the legitimate Arc web browser, actually brings you to a malicious site aricl[.]net that imitates the legitimate arc.net.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The DMG is signed ad-hoc and provides directions to right-click the app and select open thus overriding any Gatekeeper warnings.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Dumping plain text passwords out of the keychain requires the user&rsquo;s macOS password. Infostealer developers have long caught on to the fact that the easiest way to get this password is to simply ask the user for it. We see a prompt generated via a call to AppleScript.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamf Threat Labs: While searching for &ldquo;Arc Browser&rdquo; on Google, it was brought to our attention that following the sponsored result for what seems to be the legitimate Arc web browser, actually brings you to a malicious site aricl[.]net that imitates the legitimate arc.net.[&#8230;]The DMG is signed ad-hoc and provides directions to right-click the app [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-04-05T23:12:34Z","apple_news_api_id":"4d6161ec-962c-42ab-b5dd-9846d06077d6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-04-05T23:12:34Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ATWFh7JYsQqu13ZhG0GB31g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[354,159,2374,465,1583,30,2385,504,48,96],"class_list":["post-42763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-advertising","tag-applescript","tag-arc-browser","tag-gatekeeper","tag-keychain","tag-mac","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-malware","tag-security","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42764,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42763\/revisions\/42764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}