Amnesty International finally dropped the bomb and released a report about FinSpy spyware made by FinFisher Gmbh. The most interesting thing was the revelation of Mac and Linux versions, something that was missing from previous reports on this commercial malware (Kaspersky, Wikileaks). ...
No. I just clickbaited you but don’t leave yet, keep reading for something fun! ...
Lately I have been working on a new blog post about running macOS on Ryzen via KVM/QEMU. There was a need to change some blog code and because my theme fork is two years or so outdated, I decided last night to dive deep into updating and fixing it. ...
Note to original post: This post was originally written back in May 2019 but was removed because of “pressure” from my employer at the time, Apple. It was written over the weekend on my own equipment and was all about information I had way before I joined Apple. Personally I don’t think there is any special drama here other than unreleased technical details about a malware that is dead and its author busted long time ago. When paranoia and envy are dominant then everything can be a potential media drama in people’s mind. It’s all bullshit. My position didn’t change and given that there is an upcoming presentation about this malware by Thomas Reed at Objective By The Sea it’s time to re-release this. While sorting out my Mac malware collection I found out that I had an unreleased (no known public references) FruitFly/Quimitchin dropper script lost in my archives. FruitFly made big headlines two years ago and its author has been arrested. It was first reported by MalwareBytes and then a new variant was analysed by Patrick Wardle. Besides being under the radar for more than a decade, it was kind of exotic malware because most of its code was written in Perl. Last time I did something serious in Perl was twenty years ago or so! ...
Because I can :-) I was going to write a longer post about this but it is pretty much irrelevant. Essentially I have been thinking about this over the past weeks given that my character might be somewhat incompatible with what I want to achieve next. Sunday I got locked out of Twitter because some random asshole made an harassment complaint because I called him “dumb fuck” and “dumb idiot”, pretty normal things around my feed. ...