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Feature engineering for a macOS malware classifier, and why the Mac makes it harder than Windows
The threat landscape for macOS malware is expanding, while the number of specialists dedicated to defending against it has not kept pace. Unlike Windows, where machine learning (ML) models are supported by extensive documentation and standardized datasets, the macOS environment presents a significant knowledge gap. At Iru, we captured SSTAR Agent, a crypto drainer targeting web3 technology developers via a fake interview lure, which we documented in an earlier post using an ML triage we built.
How-to guide: Changing and resetting Mac passwords
This post was originally published in May 2023 and has been updated in July 2026 to reflect the latest information. When was the last time you or someone in your organization needed their Mac password to be something different than what it previously was? There are two ways to do that: change or reset. But although those two words might seem similar, their difference is significant.
Teams running Vulnerability Response patch critical CVEs in half the time
We recently measured remediation behavior across anonymized customer fleets. Customer accounts running Vulnerability Response closed more of their critical vulnerabilities, and closed them faster. The pattern held across every customer cohort.