New Mac OS Malware Exploits MacKeeper

Last month a new advisory was published on a vulnerability discovered in MacKeeper, a controversial software created by Ukrainian company ZeoBIT, now owned by Kromtech Alliance Corp.

As discovered by Braden Thomas, the flaw in MacKeeper's URL handler implementation allows arbitrary remote code execution when a user visits a specially crafted webpage.

The first reports on this vulnerability suggested that no malicious MacKeeper URLs had been spotted in the wild yet. Well, not anymore.

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