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First Malware Designed for Apple M1 Chip Discovered in the Wild

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  • First Malware Designed for Apple M1 Chip Discovered in the Wild

    One of the first malware samples tailored to run natively on Apple's M1 chips has been discovered, suggesting a new development that indicates that bad actors have begun adapting malicious software to target the company's latest generation of Macs powered by its own processors.
    Wardle detailed a Safari adware extension called GoSearch22 that was originally written to run on Intel x86 chips but has since been ported to run on ARM-based M1 chips. The rogue extension, which is a variant of the Pirrit advertising malware, was first seen in the wild on November 23, 2020, according to a sample uploaded to VirusTotal on December 27.
    One of the first malware samples tailored to run natively on Apple's M1 chips has been discovered.
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