Although macOS, and Apple operating systems in general, is quite secure, it is not infallible. In fact, due to the great security that Apple puts in all the applications and functions, friends of the foreign and those interested in accessing it just for the fact of having achieved it, focus on macOS in order to expose its vulnerabilities that there are and many The danger comes when the person who has managed to find that hole uses it for purposes that cannot be considered ethical. That’s what happened with We LOVE a new malware for sale on Telegram.
For sale AMOS via Telegram. The good and bad of using truly secure networks
We already know that whoever made the law cheated. Before talking about AMOS, let’s make clear the why is telegram used and not, for example, WhatsApp to put this malware up for sale.
Telegram offers a Much higher encryption for everything it does. Not only the messages but the ability to reach more people with the super groups and communities. In addition, the ability to register without a phone number or with virtual numbers makes Telegram much more secure and that is used by friends of others.
The fact is that through this messaging application, it has been discovered, thanks to Cyble Research that a user was selling malware created specifically to attack the macOS operating system. The Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS) is a highly effective program designed to extract a wide range of information from victims’ computers.
It has been created to harm and benefit, to profit those who use it against others. What is being a crime. It has not been discovered by chance, it has been created for that purpose. The data that AMOS can steal includes passwords saved in the keychain, system details, files on the desktop and the Documents folder, and even the macOS user password. It is specifically designed to work with popular browsers like Firefox and Chrome. It is from them, from where you can effortlessly extract those fields that are auto-completed, passwords, cookies, wallets and credit card information.
The most significant and complex thing about this virus is that it can also extract valuable information from the cryptocurrencies that we have stored on the Mac. Electrum, Binance, Exodus, Atomic and Coinomi are not safe.
