A Surreptitious Cryptocurrency Miner in the Mac App Store?
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A security researcher's analysis of "Calendar 2," a free Mac App Store calendar app, found it secretly ran the xmr-stak Monero miner using the user's CPU, with reporting sent to the developer's server.