“Silver Sparrow” MacOS Malware Quietly Infected 30,000 Computers Globally

a macbook with Apple's M1 chip

A new strain of macOS malware, nicknamed Silver Sparrow, has been spotted skulking around cyberspace. Security experts across the web have warned us about this new form of malware due to the unique techniques it employs. It has been prepared to be compatible with Apple’s new M1 ARM64 architecture that was first implemented with the latest line of MacBooks. That means that hackers intend on this malware sticking around for a while.