Fake Codex installer tricks Mac users into pasting malware, Cato finds

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Cato Networks Ltd.’s Cato CTRL threat research team today detailed a macOS attack campaign built around a fake OpenAI Codex installer.

The lure ends with the victim opening Terminal and pasting a command that runs the malware, the social engineering pattern known as ClickFix.

It begins with a sponsored Google search result for queries such […]


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