**Mac malware can easily bypass Apple’s Background Task Manager, says security researcher**
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macOS has a number of built-in tools to detect Mac malware (https://9to5mac.com/guides/malware/), with Background Task Manager added to the defenses last year. However, a security (https://9to5mac.com/guides/security/) researcher says that this can be trivially bypassed, and that Apple (https://9to5mac.com/guides/aapl/) failed to act on his recommendations to fix it.
Patrick Wardle presented his findings at the Defcon hacker conference, making the unusual decision to do so without advising Apple ahead of time …
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