A month ago, Kaspersky researchers discovered some cracked apps circulating on pirating websites and infected with a Trojan proxy. The malicious actors repackaged pre-cracked applications as PKG files with an embedded Trojan proxy and a post-install script initiating the infection.
The researchers recently caught sight of a new, hitherto unknown, macOS malware family that was piggybacking on cracked software. The threat proved far more potent than an unauthorized proxy server installation. The samples Kaspersky found could be successfully run on macOS Ventura 13.6 and later, suggesting that the operators were targeting only users of the newer operating system versions on both Intel processors and Apple silicon machines.
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Source: Kaspersky