Category:	Utilities
Price:	Free
Popularity:	Medium
Version String:	1.4.2
Release Date:	2020-11-21
Architecture:	Intel & AppleSilicon(ARM)
Minimum OS:	macOS 10.13
Vendor Name:	Objective-See, LLC
Homepage:	objective-see.org

Description:

Malware and other applications may install persistent keyboard "event taps" to intercept your keystrokes.

ReiKey can scan, detect, and monitor for such taps!

The majority of macOS malware that contains keylogger logic (to capture keypresses) does so via CoreGraphics "event taps."

ReiKey was designed to detect such keyboard taps, alerting you anytime a new tap is installed. In other words its goal is generically detect (the most common type of) macOS keyloggers.

Scanning
Running the application (ReiKey.app), or clicking "Scan..." in the application's status bar menu, will scan your system for existing keyboard "event taps":

Note:
Various system components and system applications install keyboard "event taps" (such as Siri), in order to filter and/or listen to keypresses for benign reasons.

This is normal, and does not mean Apple is spying on you!

The scan window displays the following information:
▪ the process that installed the keyboard event tap
▪ the target of the event tap (which is normally global, for all processes)
▪ the type of keyboard event tap; either "passive listener" or "active filter"

Alerting
ReiKey will provide continual protection against keyloggers (that attempt to capture keystrokes via CoreGraphics "event taps.").

Preferences
ReiKey's preferences can be accessed either via the application's main menu, or via it's status bar menu.

The preferences pane allows you to configure various (self-explanatory) aspects of ReiKey.