Few readers of this blog will believe that there aren’t any security issues with
Apple
‘s
macOS
operating system, a point made rather unsubtly by yesterday’s discovery of a flaw that lets anyone log into a computer running
macOS High Sierra
– as the root user, no less.
Those who have been following Patrick Wardle’s work will certainly not be surprised by the fact that
Mac
s do have security issues. His
Objective See
tools are widely lauded for their ability to detect existing and new threats, while his
VB
talks in
2014
,
2015
and
2016
have all been very popular.
Patrick Wardle was back at VB2017 where he gave another popular presentation.
Patrick was back at VB2017 in Madrid, this time to look at a specific piece of
macOS
malware: FruitFly. He presented
a paper
in which he analysed the malware (more specifically, a variant of it discovered in January of this year) through a custom C&C server – a technique that will be of equal interest to researchers of malware on other platforms.
Today, we publish Patrick’s long and detailed paper in both
HTML
and
PDF
format; we have also uploaded the video of his presentation to our
YouTube
channel.
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