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The FBI is presently work many infections tied to a mysterious family of Mac-based malware known as "FruitFly." When asked concerning the threat, a proponent for the Bureau told Motherboard that "as a matter of long policy, the FBI neither confirms nor denies the existence of investigations." however 2 security researchers say the FBI is so work the malware. One of the researchers, Malwarebytes's Thomas Reed, discovered the primary variant of FruitFly back in Jan 2017. At the time, he represented the threat as "a piece of malware in contrast to something I’ve seen before, that seems to possess really been alive, undetected, for a few time." FruitFly one is "extremely oversimplified on the surface," in Reed's estimation. however it distinguishes itself by its use of "ancient" functions to capture screenshots and acquire digital camera access. The malware's binary additionally contains lib jpeg, open ASCII tex...