Fortra and its partners at Fortra Software release a new version of their anti-malware tool called Geacon for macOS.
It’s got a new name, too: Cobalt Strike.
Cobalt Strike is a cross-platform threat-management tool developed by Fortra that focuses on attacking operating systems using remote code execution.
Such attacks against macOS are extremely rare, according to the company–they typically only ever target Windows.
The company describes Geacon as a Go variant of Cobalt strike and notes that it’s been available on GitHub since February 2020.The unsigned Geacon payload is retrieved from an IP address in China, the researchers said.
More important, though, the attackers get to steal Java code from an unknown source.
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