Calisto Malware, A precursor to the Dangerous Proton Mac OS malware Discovered by researchers!
Calisto Malware, a precursor to the nasty Proton Mac OS malware was recently detected by researchers in May 2018. This piece of code, supposedly a precursor was uploaded on VirusTotal back in 2016. It remained undetected for nearly 2 years before being found recently.
Calisto Malware seems to have been the RAW version of the Proton Remote Access Trojan which infected systems in 2017. The Researchers deduced that many features of the Calisto Malware were still under development and were similar to the Proton Remote Access Trojan.
Calisto Malware seems to have been the RAW version of the Proton Remote Access Trojan which infected systems in 2017. The Researchers deduced that many features of the Calisto Malware were still under development and were similar to the Proton Remote Access Trojan.
The Proton remote access Trojan had Features which were not present in the Calisto Malware and were probably later developed and implemented in it. The Calisto malware file is an unsigned DMG image that was disguised as an Intego’s Security solution provided for Mac OS.
The Proton Remote Access Trojan was being offered on sale by cyber miscreants on an underground hacking forum between a price ranging from $1,200 and $820,000 for the whole software project.
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