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CrashStealer, a newly documented Mac infostealer, used an Apple-notarized meeting app to reach victims before stealing passwords, browser data and cryptocurrency credentials behind a fake system prompt. CrashStealer fake password prompt Jamf Threat Labs first spotted a suspicious sample on VirusTotal in early May and began seeing matching detections on customer Macs in early July. Further analysis traced the malware to a signed and Apple-notarized first-stage application called Werkbit, giving researchers a clearer view of how the campaign reached victims. Werkbit carried a valid Developer ID associated with Emil Grigorov and passed Gatekeeper without an unidentified-developer warning. Apple has since revoked the signing credentials associated with the malicious application after Jamf shared its findings with the company's security team. Jamf found no zero-click stage in the samples it analyzed. A victim still had to download and launch Werkbit, allow the delivery chain to run and enter a valid Mac password before CrashStealer could reach its most valuable targets. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
With its move to JP Morgan Chase, Apple Card is facing its first major change — but don't assume that the story of how it got to here is anything but a rocky road. Here's how Apple Card got started, and what to expect from its biggest change yet to come. The physical Apple Card that hasn't changed since 2019 Apple Card and all of Apple's financial services that go along with it, do seem a very long way from how the company started out. But it isn't at all far from how in the 1980s, the company looked into financing in order to sell its expensive new Macintosh . It's hard now to be certain when this started, but at least one Apple Computer-branded credit card existed in 1984 . Then there was one consumer credit card and one business one in 1986, a year after Steve Jobs left the company. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Remember that new feature Meta announced last week that let people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content? It didn't last long. Meta pulled the feature from Instagram late on Friday, following widespread criticism over privacy concerns. "Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," Meta said in a statement . "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer available," the company added. Tag: Meta This article, " Meta Pulls AI Image Feature From Instagram Days After Launch " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
We’ve talked on a number of occasions about the problem with USB-C cables: namely, they all look alike but can have very different capabilities . Google addressed this issue in Chrome OS several years ago, and we suggested at the time that Apple should copy it . That hasn’t yet happened, but there’s now a free Mac app, WhatCable, to turn your Mac into a hardware cable tester …