{"id":121271,"date":"2021-04-06T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T22:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/new-silver-sparrow-malware-infected-nearly-30000-apple-macs"},"modified":"2021-04-06T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T22:23:18","slug":"new-silver-sparrow-malware-infected-nearly-30000-apple-macs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/new-silver-sparrow-malware-infected-nearly-30000-apple-macs","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018Silver Sparrow\u2019 Malware Infected Nearly 30,000 Apple Macs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-silver-sparrow-malware-infected-nearly-30000-apple-macs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Days after the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2021\/02\/first-malware-designed-for-apple-m1.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first malware<\/a> targeting Apple M1 chips was discovered in the wild, researchers have disclosed yet another previously undetected piece of malicious software that was found in about 30000 Macs running Intel x86_64 and the iPhone maker\u2019s M1 processors.<\/p>\n<p>However, the ultimate goal of the operation remains something of a conundrum, what with the lack of a next-stage or final payload leaving researchers unsure of its distribution timeline and whether the threat is just under active development.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the malware \u201cSilver Sparrow,\u201d cybersecurity firm Red Canary said it identified two different versions of the malware \u2014 one compiled only for Intel x86_64 and uploaded to VirusTotal on August 31, 2020 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/1decb4070db4dfe5d68ba502cf3a67de96a69ea6f3acfa4454795f96472ccc0d\/details\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">version 1<\/a>), and a second variant submitted to the database on January 22 that\u2019s compatible with both Intel x86_64 and M1 ARM64 architectures (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/c7dd06b20b64b64d3b155b6b77c2778a08ef6a6c0396d7537af411258e57af1e\/details\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">version 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after the first malware targeting Apple M1 chips was discovered in the wild, researchers have disclosed yet another previously undetected piece of malicious software that was found in about 30000 Macs running Intel x86_64 and the iPhone maker\u2019s M1 processors. However, the ultimate goal of the operation remains something of a conundrum, what with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}