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		sithadmin 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: More Mac malware from Google search The article specifically mentions that the methodology here is to trick users into running an obfuscated CLI command…that downloads and runs a binary

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GeekyBear 9 days ago [–]

Terminal commands have the ability to do dangerous things, like deleting all the user's files.

In this case, the user is warned that the command wants to do something dangerous and must manually allow or deny the action.

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