{"id":7239,"date":"2025-09-27T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/new-macos-xcsset-variant-targets-html\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:00:25","slug":"new-macos-xcsset-variant-targets-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/new-macos-xcsset-variant-targets-html\/","title":{"rendered":"New macOS XCSSET Variant Targets Firefox with Clipper and Persistence Module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    New macOS XCSSET Variant Targets Firefox with Clipper and Persistence Module<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of a known Apple macOS malware called XCSSET that has been observed in limited attacks.<br \/>\n&#8220;This new variant of XCSSET brings key changes related to browser targeting, clipboard hijacking, and persistence mechanisms,&#8221; the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a Thursday report.<br \/>\n&#8220;It employs sophisticated encryption and obfuscation<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/09\/new-macos-xcsset-variant-targets.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New macOS XCSSET Variant Targets Firefox with Clipper and Persistence Module Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of a known Apple macOS malware called XCSSET that has been observed in limited attacks. &#8220;This new variant of XCSSET brings key changes related to browser targeting, clipboard hijacking, and persistence mechanisms,&#8221; the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-7239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}