{"id":227657,"date":"2025-12-23T06:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/new-macsync-malware-dropper-evades-macos-gatekeeper-checks"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:22:22","slug":"new-macsync-malware-dropper-evades-macos-gatekeeper-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/new-macsync-malware-dropper-evades-macos-gatekeeper-checks","title":{"rendered":"New MacSync malware dropper evades macOS Gatekeeper checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-macsync-malware-dropper-evades-macos-gatekeeper-checks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest variant of the MacSync information stealer targeting macOS systems is delivered through a digitally signed, notarized Swift application.<\/p>\n<p>Security researchers at Apple device management platform Jamf say that the distribution method constitutes a significant evolution from past iterations that used less sophisticated \u201cdrag-to-Terminal\u201d or ClickFix tactics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelivered as a code-signed and notarized Swift application within a disk image named zk-call-messenger-installer-3.9.2-lts.dmg, distributed via <a href=\"https:\/\/zkcall.net\/download\">https:\/\/zkcall.net\/download<\/a>, it removes the need for any direct terminal interaction,\u201d the researchers say in a report today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest variant of the MacSync information stealer targeting macOS systems is delivered through a digitally signed, notarized Swift application. Security researchers at Apple device management platform Jamf say that the distribution method constitutes a significant evolution from past iterations that used less sophisticated \u201cdrag-to-Terminal\u201d or ClickFix tactics. \u201cDelivered as a code-signed and notarized Swift [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}