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Everyone who think they are safe using macOS should see this presentation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7VZtCUphgg

Patrick Wardle has reversed the C2 com protocol and found it had "advanced" capabilities (remote exec, key and mouse sniffing, screenshot, etc.). The malware was found on several thousands Macs too (mostly in the US).

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Any suggestion a good tools (good source one) on mac that can scan and detect this kind of malware?

the guy in the video has created a bunch of "osx sysinternals" tools for this exact purpose : https://objective-see.com/products.html.

Apple pays people to "astroturf" that they're immune from Viruses and backdoors. IMHO, that makes them much worse than Microsoft.

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