{"id":28223,"date":"2023-01-06T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T15:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/06\/dridex-malware-pops-back-up-and-turns-its-attention-to-macos-the-register\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T15:44:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T15:44:59","slug":"dridex-malware-pops-back-up-and-turns-its-attention-to-macos-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/06\/dridex-malware-pops-back-up-and-turns-its-attention-to-macos-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Dridex malware pops back up and turns its attention to macOS \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A variant of the bad penny that is Dridex, the general-purpose malware that has been around for years, now has macOS platforms in its sights and a new way of delivering malicious macros via documents.<\/p>\n

The first sample of this latest variant appeared on Virus Total in 2019, but detections started to rise a year later and peaked in December 2022, according to threat researchers at Trend Micro.<\/p>\n

However, while the Dridex variant has macOS systems in its sights, the malicious payload it delivers is a Microsoft exe file, which won’t run in a MacOS environment.<\/p>\n

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