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For context this isn’t for me this is for my sibling (she’s a minor) but she recently was sick and got a blood test of 14,000 IgE. What should I do? She’s getting Xrays and scans

A popular malware that gets you to copy and paste a command into macOS terminal isn’t safe. It’s called MacSync Stealer. I’ve done a deep into how it works.

Here’s all you need to know and how to stay safe from it

I’ve done a written analysis on it, it basically is encoded in a lot of stages and it does these things

It steals

• ⁠Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc, Opera, Vivaldi profiles
• ⁠Firefox profiles
• ⁠Browser cookies, login databases, autofill, history
• ⁠Crypto wallet browser extensions
• ⁠Desktop wallets like Exodus, Electrum, Ledger Live, Bitcoin Core, Monero, etc.
• ⁠Telegram Desktop data
• ⁠macOS Keychains
• ⁠SSH, AWS, Kubernetes configs
• ⁠Notes database
• ⁠Safari cookies/history/autofill
• ⁠Documents/Desktop/Downloads files with extensions like .pdf, .docx, .wallet, .key, .seed, .kdbx, .pem, .ovpn

All of these items on your computer consider compromised. And it also It also phishes the macOS user password using a fake “System Preferences” dialog and validates it

And it checks if Ledger Wallet.app or Ledger Live.app exists, downloads replacement files, swaps app.asar and Info.plist, then re-signs the app.

To stay safe from it the only thing you really need to do is download apps from trusted sources and do not copy and paste random commands into terminal.

It works in a bunch of stages. This AMA is for just asking questions about the malware and what to do.

I’ve been trying to install Debian on my old laptop but when it goes to the installer (I’m using Automatic install) it gives me a error saying my air password is either too long or too short

But I never was asked to enter any WiFi info?

What do I do?

Some people struggle with making a efi entry by editing their ESP in macOS if the partition is too small and some other issues and it wasted a lot of my time but I came up with a fix I’d like to share

So first boot into macOS recovery with your efi usb (make sure you have already installed macOS onto your desired boot device)

Then select the apple logo in the corner and open terminal

Run

diskutil list and find your drive with the macOS installation

Then run

sudo diskutil addPartition disk0 MS-DOS "MacOS EFI" 500m (replace disk0 with the drive found in diskutil) and run the command

Once complete reboot into the macos main drive using your opencore usb and open finder you should see a drive called MacOS EFI

Open that and paste in your EFI folder at the root of the partition then right click it and unmount

Then your done! Reboot without your flash drive and in boot options you should see a bootable partition that leads you into opencore!

I made this guide for people trying to do this but don’t know where to start. Currently I haven’t got all the methods down yet as I am looking for the most reliable sources but I have 2 methods documented down that cover lots of devices and iOS versions! Go check it out