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Mac spyware CloudMensis spies and steals data  
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CloudMensis: Mac spyware is popular with cybercriminals. After DazzleSpy (January 2022) and Gimmick (March 2022), ESET researchers have uncovered the third high-risk spy malware. The previously unknown spyware, dubbed CloudMensis by ESET, has been extensively spying on infected Apple computers since February 2022. Documents and keystrokes are recorded, e-mail messages and attachments are saved, files are copied from removable media and screen recordings are made. Cloud storage services such as Dropbox, pCloud and Yandex Disk are of particular importance: They serve both as a communication medium between victim and attacker and as storage for further malware and the captured…

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DazzleSpy attacks visitors from pro-democracy news site 
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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…

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