The newly discovered malware is interesting for being the first of its kind detected, but it seems to have been a trial balloon.
North Korean hackers seem to have created malware that evaded Apple security checks. The apps seem to be experimental, Apple-focused Jamf Threat Labs researchers say. It was the first time they had seen this technology used to compromise Apple’s macOS operating system, but it will not run on up-to-date systems.
The Jamf Threat Labs researchers found apps with malicious intent that were reported as clean by Microsoft’s VirusTotal online scanning service. They were found in variants written in the Go and Python languages and using the Google Flutter app.
Flutter is an open-source developer kit that enables the creation of multi-platform apps.
