Cybersecurity researcher MalwareHunterTeam has discovered a ZIP archive on TotalVirus containing most of the available LockBit encryptors \u2014 including one targeting M1 Macs.<\/p>\n
This is the first time the LockBit ransomware gang has built encryptors targeting Mac computers, and this is likely the first significant ransomware campaign to target macOS devices specifically.<\/p>\n
“As much as I can tell, this is the first Apple’s Mac devices targeting build of LockBit ransomware sample seen\u2026 Also is this a first for the ‘big name’ gangs?” MalwareHunterTeam said<\/a><\/strong> on Twitter.<\/p>\n The archive found on VirusTotal includes a LockBit encryptor named “locker_Apple_M1_64” targeting new Macs running Apple’s in-house silicon.<\/p>\n It also contains some targeting PowerPC CPUs commonly used in older Macs.<\/p>\n Previously, the LockBit campaign used encryptors designed for Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi servers.<\/p>\n However, the archive also features encryptors for macOS, ARM, FreeBSD, MIPS, and SPARC CPUs that were previously unknown.<\/p>\n Vx-Underground found an Apple M1 encryptor that has been in circulation since November 2022<\/a><\/strong>, meaning these samples have likely been around for some time.<\/p>\n “Lockbit ransomware group has created their first MacOS-based payload. We believe this is the first time a large ransomware threat group has developed a payload for Apple products,” it said.<\/p>\n “It appears we are late to the game. The MacOS variant has been available since November 11th, 2022.”<\/p>\n Cybersecurity researchers found an archive on TotalVirus containing LockBit encryptors designed to attack new and old Macs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":487973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[67578,85613,36626,67362,85611,77562],"class_list":["post-487965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-apple-m1","tag-lockbit","tag-macos","tag-malwarehunterteam","tag-powerpc","tag-vx-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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