Security News > 2023 > August > New Variant of XLoader macOS Malware Disguised as 'OfficeNote' Productivity App
A new variant of an Apple macOS malware called XLoader has surfaced in the wild, masquerading its malicious features under the guise of an office productivity app called "OfficeNote."
"The new version of XLoader is bundled inside a standard Apple disk image with the name OfficeNote.dmg," SentinelOne security researchers Dinesh Devadoss and Phil Stokes said in a Monday analysis.
A macOS variant of the malware emerged in July 2021, distributed as a Java program in the form of a compiled.
The latest iteration of XLoader gets around this limitation by switching to programming languages such as C and Objective C, with the disk image file signed on July 17, 2023.
XLoader is designed to harvest clipboard data as well as information stored in the directories associated with web browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
"XLoader continues to present a threat to macOS users and businesses," the researchers concluded.
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