MacSync is a relatively young, rapidly evolving family of crypto/info stealers. First advertised on the dark web in 2025 as Mac.c, the stealer was later renamed to MacSync by its creators. The initial versions were implemented as AppleScripts and closely resembled the AMOS stealer family, but over time, MacSync developed distinctive features of its own, including a backdoor module. In this report, we discuss a new infection chain that differs significantly from previous variants. We first spotted it in the wild in September 2026.

Key points:

• The developers of this family have overhauled their approach to payload delivery by replacing script-based droppers with binary ones.
• The main malicious payload now consists of…