Security News > 2020 > July > EvilQuest: Inside A ‘New Class’ of Mac Malware
The new malware sample discovered this week, dubbed EvilQuest by security researchers, may be ushering in a new class of Mac malware, according to Thomas Reed, director of Mac and mobile with Malwarebytes.
We're chatting today about Mac threats and one particular Mac targeting malware that was discovered just this week.
So I'm kind of interested in the analysis part of this, Thomas, because this malware sample was tweeted out on Monday by security researcher Dinesh Devadoss and basically within 24 hours, a bunch of Mac security experts, including yourself, including Patrick Wardle and others, had published analyses on this new malware and so I want to talk a little bit about the malware sample, but I also wanted to ask you a little bit about what goes into analyses when you're looking at you know, newly discovered Mac malware samples or families like this one, like what are some of the first things you look for?
We do anticipate seeing some further new Mac malware throughout the course of the year.
I'm kind of curious to see whether this EvilQuest malware is going to usher in kind of a new class of malware to the Mac or if it will be a fairly isolated case.