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Cross-platform malware Adwind infects Mac

Published July 26th, 2016 at 12:58 PM EDT , modified July 26th, 2016 at 12:58 PM EDT

A colleague referred me to an article on a piece of cross-platform malware, called Adwind RAT (short for “remote access tool”), that was going undetected.

This is often code for “this malware was written in Java,” which doesn’t necessarily mean that it actually drops a Mac payload. So I was a bit skeptical, and said so. But, hey, new malware to play with… how could I resist taking a peek?

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