This new malware pretends to be a Visual Studio app update and then floods your device with malware and ransomware

A new malware has been found targeting macOS users and spreading as an update to a legitimate program, as it seeks 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 found that it was built in the Rust programming language, granting its operators a number of possibilities, including listing running processes, executing arbitrary shell commands, creating new directories, changing and deleting existing ones. extract files, terminate other malware processes and more.