Shortly after, variants of the same backdoor were uncovered that went after Windows and macOS.
The find is unusual, as it is rare to discover malicious code that can attack multiple platforms at once.According to the researchers in a technical analysis, SysJoker is thought to have been initiated in an attack in the second half of 2021.Security researcher Patrick Wardle performed the analysis of macOS variant, as Intezer concentrated on the Windows version.
The code is found to be a universal binary covering Intel and arm64 builds, meaning it could run on Apple Silicon as well as older Macs with Intel chips.The Windows analysis indicates it operates in practically the same way, namely pretending to be an update, contacting a remote server to download a payload and to receive other commands, and to execute the code on the target system.The files and directories created by SysJoker include:.The persistence code is under the path LibraryLaunchAgents/com.apple.update.plist?While you browse, macOS Monterey's Safari is fighting off trackers and malware for you.Here's how to see just how much it's doing with its built-in privacy report.
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