It has slyly crept its way into Mac machines and covers countries like the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France and Germany.īut the damage it can do remains up in the air. Through a blog post, Red Canary revealed how the “Silver Sparrow’s” motives are unclear as of this writing. 17 and experts are carefully monitoring it, figuring out what damage it may do. 17, with higher concentrations reported in the U.S., U.K., Canada, France and Germany, according to data from Malwarebytes, a website that blocks ransomware attacks.Mac support for Malwarebytes Breach Remediation Andrew Burton /Getty ImagesĪpple’s macOS rarely get infected but a new report claims there is a new malware out in the open called “Silver Sparrow.” It appears this new strain has infected roughly 30,000 Macintosh users as of Feb. Silver Sparrow infected Macs in 153 countries as of Feb.
"Though we haven't observed Silver Sparrow delivering additional malicious payloads yet, its forward-looking M1 chip compatibility, global reach, relatively high infection rate, and operational maturity suggest Silver Sparrow is a reasonably serious threat," researchers wrote. Notably, Silver Sparrow contains code that runs natively on Apple's in-house M1 chip that was released in November, making only the second known malware to do so, according to the news site Ars Technica. It's also unclear what would trigger that function.
Silver Sparrow includes a self-destruct mechanism that appears to have not been used, researchers said. It's not clear what the malware's goal is.
The malware, which the company calls Silver Sparrow, does not "exhibit the behaviors that we've come to expect from the usual adware that so often targets macOS systems," Tony Lambert, an intelligence analyst at Red Canary wrote. Nearly 30,000 Macs world-wide have been infected with mysterious malware, according to researchers at security firm Red Canary.
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