AppleInsider · August 6, 2026 — 17:10

One pasted Terminal command opens the door to Mac crypto wallet theft

One pasted Terminal command opens the door to Mac crypto wallet theft
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Researchers have uncovered Mac malware that can steal credentials and drain all or a selected percentage of a cryptocurrency wallet, in yet another reminder not to paste random commands from the internet into Terminal.New malware via ClickFixThe Go-based malware arrived through a ClickFix attack, which disguises a malicious instruction as a CAPTCHA or error message. Instead of exploiting macOS, the…

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