{"id":5640,"date":"2025-09-26T10:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/new-macos-xcsset-variant-targets-firefox-with-clipper-and-persistence-module\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T10:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:27:04","slug":"new-macos-xcsset-variant-targets-firefox-with-clipper-and-persistence-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/new-macos-xcsset-variant-targets-firefox-with-clipper-and-persistence-module\/","title":{"rendered":"New macOS XCSSET Variant Targets Firefox with Clipper and Persistence Module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity 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\u00a0Cybersecurity 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\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity 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 said in a Thursday report. &#8220;It employs sophisticated encryption and obfuscation\u00a0Cybersecurity&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/new-macos-xcsset-variant-targets-firefox-with-clipper-and-persistence-module\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New macOS XCSSET Variant Targets Firefox with Clipper and Persistence Module<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}