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| | LaunchDaemon (or LaunchAgent) Hijacking is a MacOS privilege escalation and persistence technique. It involves abusing insecure file/folder permissions to replace legitimately installed, misconfigured LaunchDaemons with malicious code. I first spotted this issue affecting the OSQuery installer but went looking and found multiple other products with the same problem. This isn't a novel technique (it's briefly mentioned in T1543.004) but I was surprised to find it so rarely talked about. Example - Hijacking the OSQuery LaunchDaemon I've already disclosed this issue to the OSQuery team and they kindly let me use it as an example in this post.
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| | A Hyper Key is an extra modifier key that can be used to add extra keyboard shortcuts in tools such as hammerspoon. The most common method on a Mac was to use your Caps Lock key as your Hyper key using a tool called Karabiner Elements. The issue with Karabiner though is that it is a kernel extension and keeps running into problems with newer OS X releases. If your only use case for Karabiner is to remap the Caps Lock key - you may be able to use the OS X native hidutil utility to achieve the same result.
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| Every few years I have to figure out a new way to share a Mac's printer with Windows PCs. The printer is connected to a Mac with USB and shared using System Preferences>Sharing>Printer Sharing. Apple provides Bonjour Print Services for Windows as a free download. It starts a service that discovers printers using the Zeroconf...