30,000 Macs infected with malware???

[FBz]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/new-malware-found-on-30000-macs-has-security-pros-stumped/

[Daniel]

Silver Sparrow comes in two versions—one with a binary in mach-object format compiled for Intel x86_64 processors and the other Mach-O binary for the M1

They didn't bother to compile it for PowerPC. Do they even know we exist?

[FBz]

“Do they even know we exist?” - Daniel

Fine by me if they’ve forgotten us, especially in this particular instance. Silver Sparrow seems to be awaiting further command(s)… whatever those might be. Certainly sales of anti-virus and malware protection packages will increase - but this might also actually hamper sales of the new M1 based Macs. (Wasn’t planning on buying one here anyway.) 

All hail the PowerPC! (Not schadenfreude.)

[IIO]

that is when you act like apple acts.

they forbid us users to use java years ago but java is still used in 1337 different locations of their own OS.

[GaryN]

Damn! 1337 places? Exactly? Do you have a deep undercover inside Apple we don't know about?

[teroyk]

It's only for x86_64 and M1 Macs. So no problem for us.
But if you need detect it from some one else machine, there is more information:
https://redcanary.com/blog/clipping-silver-sparrows-wings/

[IIO]

i dont need malware. if i want to wreck my HD data, i turn on my massive PA, if i want to wreck the whole computer i kick it.