Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5324. As usual, it doesn’t release information about what security issues this update might add or change.

This version adds another new Yara rule in its TIMELYTURTLE series, for MACOS.TIMELYTURTLE.SWNOA, and amends the recent rules for MACOS.SOMA.AUENB and MACOS.DUBROBBER.CHBI. In the new XPScripts.yr file introduced in XProtect 5322, it reverses the order of the two rules and amends MACOS.OSASCRIPT.COTABR.

You can check whether this update has been installed by opening System Information via About This Mac, and selecting the Installations item under Software.

A full listing of security data file versions is given by SilentKnight and SystHist for El Capitan to Tahoe available from their product page. If your Mac hasn’t yet installed this update, you can force it using SilentKnight or at the command line.

If you want to install this as a named update in SilentKnight, its label is XProtectPlistConfigData_10_15-5324

Sequoia and Tahoe systems only

This update has already been released for Sequoia and Tahoe via iCloud. If you want to check it manually, use the Terminal command
sudo xprotect check
then enter your admin password. If that returns version 5324 but your Mac still reports an older version is installed, you should be able to force the update using
sudo xprotect update