30,000 Macs infected with new Silver Sparrow malware | ZDNet

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There appears to be two versions, one for Intel-based Macs and one for the new M1 chip machines.

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Oh good. I can get both then :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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Being the contrarian I am… Flash is dead and has been dying since 2017 so I doubt that it’s a vector (is that the right terminology? It always reminds me of the movie Airplane… “give me a vector Victor”) plus pretty well anything that would run on an Intel Mac runs on an M1 - there’s a bleeding emulator :roll_eyes: So no rocket scientist dynamic CISC to RISC rework needed in the Malware Inc. development labs.

Anyway, thank’s for the heads up Graham. I’ll be even more careful that usual.

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I hope the vaccine for it comes soon…

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Yes but we’ll need an Intel variant and the M1 variant :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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You better hope the EU haven’t mucked up the procurement of the M1 variant :wink::yum:

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You’d better hope that the manufacturer doesn’t delay applying for marketing authorisation in the EU long enough for another country to grab all the doses.

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:roll_eyes:that would ever happen…O wait a minute …:yum:

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