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Title: Mac malware can easily bypass Apple’s Background Task Manager, says security researcher Post by: HCK on August 20, 2023, 04:05:07 pm Mac malware can easily bypass Apple’s Background Task Manager, says security researcher
<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/08/Mac-malware-can-easily-bypass-Apples-Background-Task-Manager.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500)</div><p>macOS has a number of built-in tools to detect Mac <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/malware/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">malware[/url], with Background Task Manager added to the defenses last year. However, a <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/security/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">security[/url] researcher says that this can be trivially bypassed, and that <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/aapl/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple[/url] failed to act on his recommendations to fix it.</p> <p>Patrick Wardle presented his findings at the Defcon hacker conference, making the unusual decision to do so without advising Apple ahead of time … </p> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/14/mac-malware-background-task-manager/#more-901560" data-post-id="901560" data-layer-pagetype="post" data-layer-postcategory="mac,macos,security" data-layer-viewtype="unknown" class="more-link">more…[/url] Source: Mac malware can easily bypass Apple’s Background Task Manager, says security researcher (https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/14/mac-malware-background-task-manager/) |