Pirated Software Puts Mac Users at Risk as Proxy Malware Emerges

Malware is being targeted at Mac users who receive pirated versions of popular apps from warez websites after they choose to download them from those websites. Various reports state that cybercriminals are infecting macOS devices with proxy trojans and turning them into terminals to spread the malware and run phishing and hacking campaigns on them.

It has been reported recently that an ongoing campaign called the Kaspersky Campaign was discovered earlier in the year in April. According to the report, the campaign sells proxy access that turns into botnets such as Qakbot, which was recently dismantled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and removed from around 7,00,000 machines. 

According to Kaspersky’s report, this campaign is targeting users who are not willing to pay for premium versions of apps or who are unwilling to upgrade their current apps. The cybersecurity firm’s research found that the virus was injected into pirated versions of 35 popular apps that edit images, compress videos, edit videos, recover lost data, scan networks, and recover passwords. 

The latest attack is targeting Mac users by spreading a new proxy trojan malware through the distribution of popular copyrighted macOS software that can be found on warez websites, enabling them to exploit Mac users. When a computer is infected with this malware, it is transformed into an automatic traffic-forwarding terminal, which is used to

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