Malware for Mac based on Microsoft Word macros detected

We continue with this news of malware on Apple computers and this time it seems that the malware detected has the basics of Microsoft Word macros. This means that we are dealing with a malware "based on Windows" and ported to Mac, something that worries a little since more and more cases of malware are detected.

Clearly, no operating system is invulnerable, but on macOS there were few occasions when malware was discovered, and too many are entering lately. Does this mean that I have to install an antivirus? No, in principle it is very strange that we can infect the Mac, but in the case of this malware it does it read the browsing history, monitor the Web camera or access the password key rings.

As in previous occasions, it is best not to accept unknown emails, navigate through safe places, be careful with what we download and above all common sense. It is difficult for us to be affected by malware of this type, but we have more and more possibilities since these proliferate over the years and in this case it has been created in the Python programming language, and We can find it in the Word document called "US Allies and Rivals Digest Trump's Victory - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace" shared even by social networks ...

This malware requires a user failure to run, it needs the user to accept it and this is where we must be careful, since if we do not accept the macros it cannot access the system. In any case, the important thing now is that security companies such as Synack, in charge of discovering this malware are attentive and any strange movement on a system like macOS is quickly discovered.