Back to School Reminder – Keep Your Mac Clean!

Key points from our research:

• Around early-mid August, we noticed an increase in MacOS malware detections, specifically AdLoad and UpdateAgent in IronDome, in the education sector. This timing correlates with students returning to school, therefore bringing their personal (infected) devices to school networks, and is likely the cause of this increase.


• Our CyOC discovered previously unreported IOCs relating to AdLoad and UpdateAgent, including HTTP User Agents, HTTP Paths, and domains. Additionally, some IOCs discovered have been reported since 2019, which …

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