Security News the first-ever Word document spreading macro malware on macOS

[LASER_oneXM]

.....here some quotes from the articla above:

After last month security researchers discovered the first-ever Word document spreading macro malware on macOS, last week, researchers from Fortinet spotted a Word document that contained macro scripts that distributed both Windows and macOS malware at the same time, depending on the OS it managed to infect. Malicious Office files with attached macro scripts that download malware are usually referred in the infosec industry as "macro malware."
On Windows, macro malware has been around since the 90s. Even if Microsoft offered an Office version for Mac OS X (now macOS), weaponized Office files never contained macro scripts that could run on a Mac.

Macro malware rears its ugly head on macOS

The first fully working macOS macro malware was spotted at the start of February by Symantec and Synack researchers, who found a malicious Word document that used Python code embedded in the macro script to download a malicious payload from a remote server. Because the C&C server was down, researchers couldn't tell what the payload was used for.
Last week, Fortinet researchers discovered a similar Word file, also containing Python code embedded in its macro script.

 

[larry goes to church]

IT really was only a matter of time, if the technique has worked for 10+ years on windows why would it not work for macOS.

 

[Winter Soldier]

Every day, thousands of researchers analyze and study operating systems, software and applications, with the goal of finding bugs and security issues and every day thousands of malcoders and cybercriminals are studying how to attack these operating systems, whatever they are.
It is an endless battle.

 

[In2an3_PpG]

Every day, thousands of researchers analyze and study operating systems, software and applications, with the goal of finding bugs and security issues and every day thousands of malcoders and cybercriminals are studying how to attack these operating systems, whatever they are.
It is an endless battle.

It might be an endless battle but I'm sure glad windows is not alone in this one.

 

[Winter Soldier]

It might be an endless battle but I'm sure glad windows is not alone in this one.

Yeah, absolutely!