Monero Mining Malware Hits Apple Macs

There has been a new Mac-based cryptojacking attack reported all around Apple’s forums this week, forcing users to unwittingly run software that mines the privacy coin Monero. According to the blog post published by Malwarebytes, this software was first discovered when a user noticed that a process known as “mshelper” consumed suspiciously large amounts of CPU time.

The user also said that “mshelper” was constantly appearing in the CPY section of the Activity Monitor at high levels.
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After installing a program named BitDefender and Malwarebytes, their attempts proved unhelpful. One reader even suggested running Etrecheck which immediately identified the malware and allowed the victim to remove it.

According to Malwarebytes Labs, there have been many suspicious processes installed for which the program was able to find file copies. The “dropper” in this case is the program which installs the malware. Most usually, the Mac malware is installed by decoy documents that users mistakenly open, downloads from pirate sites as well as false Adobe Flash Player installers.
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The location of a launcher file called “pplauncher” which is maintained by a launch daemon was found by researchers – meaning that the dropper probably had root privileges. All in all, this malware was modeled to mine Monero (XMR) in a file that combines more than 23,000 tasks.

Even though the mining malware is not dangerous unless the Mac has damaged fans or clogged vents (resulting in overheating), it is a practice that is considered as a hack and one that works to benefit crypto scammers.