A new and strange macOS malware called "JokerSpy" has been identified, with its first known backdoor creation hitting a crypto exchange.While Mac threats are relatively rare compared to Windows, the
A new and strange macOS malware called "JokerSpy" has been identified, with its first known backdoor creation hitting a crypto exchange.
While Mac threats are relatively rare compared to Windows, the number of instances where macOS is the target has continued to grow. In a new discovery, it seems there's one more backdoor-creating malware to add to the list of potential threats.Initially reported by researchers by Bitdefender with independent research also carried out by Elastic Security Labs, the malware known as JokerSpy is still relatively unknown, in part due to a lack of samples. So far, BitDefender is working on four samples in total, while Eastic focused on the breach of a "prominent Japanese cryptocurrency exchange."

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