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Phil Stokes is a Research Engineer at SentinelOne, specializing in macOS threat intelligence, platform vulnerabilities and malware analysis. He began his journey into macOS security as a software developer, creating end user troubleshooting and security tools just at the time when macOS adware and commodity malware first began appearing on the platform. Phil has been closely following the development of macOS threats as well as researching Mac software and OS vulnerabilities since 2014.

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Use Of Obfuscated Beacons In ‘pymafka Supply Chain Attack Signals A New Trend In MacOS Attack TTPs 1

Security & Intelligence

Use of Obfuscated Beacons in ‘pymafka’ Supply Chain Attack Signals a New Trend in macOS Attack TTPs

Phil Stokes / May 25, 2022

A new typosquatting attack against the PyPI repository targets enterprise Macs with a distinctive obfuscation method.

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Security Research

The Art and Science of macOS Malware Hunting with radare2 | Leveraging Xrefs, YARA and Zignatures

Phil Stokes / March 21, 2022

In the next part of our series on reversing macOS malware, we dig into identifying reused code across malware samples for hunting and detection.

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