XProtect merely received a bump for the minimum Flash player plug-in (now, minimum required version is 32.0.0) but otherwise added no new malware families, while MRT only added a single new malware family to its search-and-remove definitions, an item Apple designated MACOS.35846e4. With XProtect having hardly seen a significant update since March of 2018, there were high hopes that Apple were finally playing catch-up with the rounds of macOS malware that have appeared since XProtect’s last update.Īs it turned out, the updates were underwhelming on the one hand and curious on the other. So, when Apple dropped a couple of updates to MRT and XProtect last week, the macOS community raised a collective eyebrow of interest. We’ve noted before that Apple’s built-in security technologies have been missing some updates of late, and we weren’t the only ones. But what is this new malware family MACOS.35846e4? Find out on this journey inside MRT ![]() Apple’s little known malware removal tool gets a signature update.
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