DazzleSpy attacks visitors from pro-democracy news site
ESET researchers analyze special macOS spy software: DazzleSpy attacks visitors of pro-democracy news site in Hong Kong by executing itself as an exploit and implanting itself in the site visitor. Hong Kong radio station D100's website was compromised. A Safari exploit runs that installs spyware on the Macs of news portal visitors. The "watering hole" operations carried out by the attackers indicate that the targets are likely politically active, pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong. The ESET researchers have named the spy program DazzleSpy and examined it in more detail. The malware is capable of a variety of…