Malware Targeting Apple’s M1 ARM Chips

[Peter_Brosdahl]

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Apple’s M1 SoC was only announced in November, but it’s already become a target for attackers. Wired (via security researcher Patrick Wardle) has reported that malware authors have been setting their sights on the ARM-based chip.



Today we confirmed that malicious adversaries are indeed crafting multi-architecture applications so that their code will natively run on M1 systems. The malicious GoSearch22 application may be the first example of such natively M1 compatible code.



GoSearch22 is adware that installs as an extension for the Safari web browser. It has been tailored to the ARM64 processor with techniques that have also...

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