VERY IMPORTANT

Earlier this year, SentinelOne did a roundup of the first 6 months of MacOS malware in 2019, noting that there had been quite an uptick in outbreaks, from a return of OSX.Dok and Lazarus to new cryptominers, a fake WhatsApp trojan and the rapid development of a macOS bug which allowed remotely-hosted attacker code to execute on a local machine without warning from Gatekeeper. So what have attackers been up to since then, and what new tricks and tips do defenders need to be aware of? Let’s take a look at macOS malware from July to December, 2019.