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New macOS malware steals passwords by posing as Apple’s crash-reporting tool

New macOS malware steals passwords by posing as Apple’s crash-reporting tool Jamf Threat Labs has uncovered a new macOS infostealer named CrashStealer that disguises itself as Apple’s crash-reporting tool to steal passwords, Keychain data, and cryptocurrency wallets. The malware was first spotted in May while it was still under development. By early July, Jamf was seeing in-the-wild detections, indicating it had moved into active use. “Unlike much of the commodity stealer activity on macOS, which is built on AppleScript droppers or thin Objective-C wrappers, CrashStealer is implemented in native C++ around an internal class the authors named MacOSData,” the researchers wrote. “It validates the victim’s login password locally before harvesting, collects broadly across browsers,…

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Jul 14, 2026
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