{"id":1804,"date":"2025-12-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2025-12-26T13:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:18:48","slug":"macsync-stealer-variant-finds-a-way-to-bypass-apple-malware-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/macsync-stealer-variant-finds-a-way-to-bypass-apple-malware-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"MacSync Stealer variant finds a way to bypass Apple malware protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MacSync-Stealer-finds-a-way-to-bypass-Apple-malware-protections.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>We\u2019ve recently seen <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/11\/attackers-using-chatgpt-to-trick-mac-users-into-installing-macstealer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">how ChatGPT was used<\/a> to trick <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mac<\/a> users into installing MacStealer, and now a different tactic has been found to persuade users to install a version of MacSync Stealer.<\/p>\n<p>The Mac remains a relatively difficult target for attackers thanks to Apple\u2019s protections against the installation of malware. However, Mac malware is on the increase, and two recently-discovered tactics discovered by <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">security<\/a> researchers highlight the creative approaches some attackers are using \u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,malware,security\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1033309\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/22\/macsync-stealer-variant-finds-a-way-to-bypass-apple-malware-protections\/#more-1033309\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve recently seen how ChatGPT was used to trick Mac users into installing MacStealer, and now a different ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}