After Amazon and its connected speakers, it is Apple's turn to be the victim of a potentially very dangerous bug. Researchers incybersecurityhave thus discovered a technique allowing, via an XCODE project (software used by developers to create compatible apps with macOS), to infect the machine of its user and this without being alerted.
But the incident does not stop there, since the site behind the case also reports that in the case of a work shared with other Internet users, then themalware, of XCSSET type, spreads even more quickly by also reaching the employees in question.
Risk sensitive data?
The virus, which has already touched several hundred computersMacin China andInde, is able to give full access to the machine targeted for hackers. Then it is even easily possible for them to download the personal information stored in the hard drive of the device.
Safari, the Apple's owner browser and installed automatically on its products, is also affected by this vulnerability, which means that even the online activity of the target can be monitored in this way. Like what, even with the best wages ofconfidentialityPromised by the apple firm in its marketing campaigns, no system is inviolable even by putting the price.
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