New Mac backdoor using antiquated code

Published January 18th, 2017 at 10:16 AM EST , modified January 18th, 2017 at 10:16 AM EST

The first Mac malware of 2017 was brought to my attention by an IT admin, who spotted some strange outgoing network traffic from a particular Mac. This led to the discovery of a piece of malware unlike anything I’ve seen before, which appears to have actually been in existence, undetected, for some time, and which seems to be targeting biomedical research centers.

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