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Hackers are already targeting Apple’s M1 Macs with malware – Yahoo News Australia
A security researcher found adware that was specifically designed for the new processor.
Macs with Apple’s M1 processor
have only been around for a few months, but it didn’t take long for hackers to start targeting the systems. Security researcher Patrick Wardle says he has found a malicious app that was created specifically for the powerful M1 chip
.
He wrote in a blog post
that the Safari adware extension, which is called GoSearch22, was originally designed for Intel x86 processors. It appears to be a variant of the well-known Mac adware Pirrit. Wardle told Motherboard
that the…
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