Mac Users Under Attack: Malvertising Campaign Distributing Atomic Stealer Malware

An updated version of macOS stealer malware called Atomic Stealer (or AMOS) is being distributed through a new malvertising campaign. The authors of the program appear to be actively maintaining and updating malware. 

When the creators of AMOS found a way to advertise this tool for $1,000 per month in the spring of 2023, they claimed that it would allow the theft of a wide range of data. It was not long after that that the wild was inundated with new variants of malware that were armed with a large number of new spying features, targeting gamers and cryptocurrency investors. 

According to the malware’s authors, the malware can be used to steal keychain passwords, browser information, cryptocurrency wallets, and other files from a compromised device, among other things. 

The company recently observed that although AMOS was originally distributed through cracked software downloads, it has now been discovered to have been delivered through a malvertising campaign, according to Malwarebytes. 

An unknown entity in Belarus appears to have hacked into a Google advertiser account and used it to advertise the TradingView financial market tracking app through a fake website for a real financial market tracking app.

It has been reported that cybercriminals are increasingly deploying data-stealing malware against Apple computers

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