Nasty Mac malware bypasses Gatekeeper, undetectable by most antivirus apps<div class="feat-image">
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<p>We learned recently that macOS malware <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/06/macos-malware-mcafee-threat-report-april-2017/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">grew by 744%[/url] last year, though most of it fell into the less-worrying category of adware. However, a newly-discovered piece of <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/malware/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">malware[/url] (via
Reddit) falls into the ‘seriously nasty’ category – able to spy on all your Internet usage, including use of secure websites.</p>
<p>Security researchers at <a href="
http://blog.checkpoint.com/2017/04/27/osx-malware-catching-wants-read-https-traffic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CheckPoint[/url] found something they’ve labelled OSX/Dok, which manages to go undetected by Gatekeeper and stops users doing anything on their Mac until they accept a fake OS X update …</p>
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Nasty Mac malware bypasses Gatekeeper, undetectable by most antivirus apps
