Microsoft said it has detected a new variant of XCSSET, a powerful macOS malware family that has targeted developers and users since at least 2020.

For the zshrc persistence method, the new XCSSET variant creates a file named ~/.zshrc_aliases that contains the payload and appends a command in the ~/.zshrc file. This way, the created file ...

Once you have saved either ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc, exit the shell and open a new terminal. By default, you will be in insert mode, which means that you type as you normally would.