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First native malware aimed at M1 Macs spotted by researcher – iTWire

Hardly three months after a series of Mac computers, powered by new M1 chips, was launched, a security researcher has discovered malware written specifically for…

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Hardly three months after a series of Mac computers, powered by new M1 chips, was launched, a security researcher has discovered malware written specifically for this platform.Researcher Patrick Wardle said he had searched through the VirusTotal database and identified a macOS program that was written in native M1 code and was identified as malicious.
The M1 processor uses ARM- based architecture and thus apps developed for Mac had to be now translated through Apple’s Rosetta 2 engine or else new…

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