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Security Bite: Did Apple just declare war on Adload malware?

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Following the release of new betas last week, Apple snuck out one of the most significant updates to XProtect I’ve ever seen. The macOS malware detection tool added 74 new Yara detection rules, all aimed at a single threat, Adload. So what is it exactly, and why does Apple see it as such an issue?

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XProtect, Yara rules, huh?

XProtect was introduced in 2009 as part of macOS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Initially, it was released to detect and alert users if malware was discovered in an installing file. However, XProtect has recently evolved significantly. The retirement of the long-standing Malware Removal Tool (MRT) in April 2022 prompted the emergence of XProtectRemediator (XPR), a more capable native anti-malware component responsible for the detection and remediation of threats on Mac.

As of macOS 14 Sonoma, XProtect consists of three main components:

  1. The XProtect app itself, which can detect malware using Yara rules whenever an app first launches, changes, or updates its signatures.
  2. XProtectRemediator is more proactive and can both detect and remove malware with regular Yara scans. These occur in the background during periods of low activity and have minimal impact on the CPU.
  3. XProtectBehaviorService (XBS) was added with the latest version of macOS and monitors system behavior in relation to critical resources.

The XProtect suite utilizes Yara signature-based detection to identify…

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No, I do not believe this steak was cooked by an iPhone, but I’ll bite anyway

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Generally speaking, I’m pretty good at skipping past ads in my Twitter stream, but this one grabbed my attention with a clickbait headline that proved harder to resist than a perfectly grilled slab of beef.

“Would you believe this steak was cooked by an iPhone?”

Not for a nanosecond, of course, despite the multitude of stories connecting fire and iPhones over the years.

But I couldn’t escape the attendant curiosity: What in the name of Steve Jobs might allow a marketing professional – no, make that even a marketing professional — to suggest such a preposterous feat might be possible.

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Network World Paul McNamara

Misfortune Cookie Takes Bite Out of Internet Security – Tom’s Guide

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Misfortune Cookie Takes Bite Out of Internet Security
Tom’s Guide
This cookie wants to take a bite out of you: A serious security flaw called Misfortune Cookie affects more than 12 million routers, modems and other "gateway devices" — as well as all the devices connected to them, from computers, smartphones and …

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Apple’s Mac OS X Lion takes bite out of malware – msnbc.com

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Furthermore, security experts still stress that the biggest danger for … but in a more robust awareness among Mac users that every computer, no matter who makes it, is vulnerable.
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