New malware ‘Silver Sparrow’ is targeting both Intel and M1 Macs

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A new piece of malware has been detected on almost 30,000 Macs (so far) and, with no evidence yet of a harmful payload, it appears that security types can’t quite pinpoint the malware’s motives.

Researchers over at Red Canary, a security operations firm where the malware was first discovered, have named it “Silver Sparrow” (h/t Ars Technica). As of now, it’s been detected in 153 countries, with a higher number of cases in the U.S., Canada, U.K, Germany, and France …