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From appleinsider.com - February 17, 2021 9:40 AM

The first malware native to Apple Silicon M1 Macs has been discovered by independent security researcher Patrick Wardle.

Ex-NSA researcher Patrick Wardle has recently praised Apple for the security of its M1 processor, but even so has now discovered evidence of hackers recompiling malware for it.

Wardle discovered the existence of GoSearch22.app, an M1-native version of the longstanding Pirrit virus. This version appears to have been aimed at displaying ads and collecting data from the user's browser.

"Today we confirmed that malicious adversaries are indeed crafting multi-architecture applications, so that their code will natively run on M1 systems," says Wardle in a blog post. "The malicious GoSearch22 application may be the first example of such natively M1 compatible code."

 

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