Password dialogs that are requested by the System Preferences (or System Settings) app itself come up as an integral part of the Preferences application window. Well-informed Mac users should spot that the popup produced clearly belongs to the malware app itself, which is simply called Setup. In this case, Cyble researchers noted that the malware lures you into giving away your account password by popping up a dialog with the title System Preferences (in macOS Ventura, it’s actually now called System Settings), and claiming that macOS itself “wants to access System Preferences”. Running an app under your account is enough to read many or most of your files, but actions such as viewing and changing system settings, and viewing Keychain items, require you to put in your password every time, as an extra layer of safety and security. Watch out for password promptsĪs you can imagine, attackers who want to access your macOS Keychain can’t do so simply by tricking you into running a program while you’re already logged in.
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Ironically, the one browser that doesn’t show up on the list is Apple’s own Safari, but the sellers claim to be able to exfiltrate data from Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Yandex, Opera, and Opera’s gamer-centric browser, OperaGX.Īs an AMOS “customer”, you also get an account on the cybergang’s online AMOS cloud portal, and a feature to send “crime logs” and stolen data directly to your Telegram account, so you don’t even need to login to the portal to check for successful attacks.Īs well as that, you get what the crooks describe as a beautiful DMG installer, presumably to improve the likelihood that you can lure prospective victims into installing the software in the first place.ĭMGs are Apple Disk Image files, commonly used by legitimate software developers as a well-known, good-looking, easy-to-use way of delivering Mac applications.Īll this for $1000 a month. Slurp the contents of dozens of different cryptowallets.Plunder secret data from eight different browsers.Retrieve comprehensive information about your system.Steal files from your Desktop and Documents directories.Rip off passwords and authentication information from your macOS Keychain (Apple’s internal storage system for passwords and authentication credentials).
They’re after passwords, cryptocoins and filesĪccording to Cyble, the crooks are explicitly advertising that their malware can do all of these things:
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