A couple of weeks ago, I experienced a first — a trojan horse on MacOS, and it wasn’t pretty…
As a lifetime MacOS user, I’ve always rested comfortably knowing that hackers generally target Windows over MacOS. That said, I’ve always installed AV as an added precaution as I know that in my line of work doing web development, there is often extra low-level access to the OS required.
I decided to organise myself for a recent project using the Notion app. As usual, I went to Google and typed “Notion Mac app.” There was a sponsored link in the results list, which I clicked on and downloaded the .dmg installer.
I opened the installer, which looked strange as it was missing some of the branding, but I didn’t think much of it and installed it.