This new malware masquerades as a Visual Studio app update and then floods your device with malware and ransomware

New malware has been found that targets macOS users and spreads as an update to a legitimate program, as it aims to steal people’s sensitive data, establish persistence on the vulnerable device, and ultimately deploy ransomware.

Cybersecurity researchers Bitdefender recently discovered the campaign, called RustDoor, and discovered that it was built on the Rust programming language, giving its operators a number of capabilities, including displaying running processes, executing arbitrary shell commands, creating new folders, modifying and deleting existing folders, exfiltrating files, terminating other malware processes and more.