Apple shifted to its own in-house M1 processors for faster performance. It's mostly been a positive move so far, except for the fact that most devs are still trying to get their software to run natively on the M1 notebooks. Yes, Apple's Rosetta creates backward compatibility, but there's a lot more work to be done.

And now, we've just learned about malware native to the M1. Security researcher Patrick Wardle released findings on this new malware. It's essentially an adware extension for Safari that previously ran on Intel chips. 

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This is definitely an issue because the security community doesn't have signatures to detect these threats yet. The reason for that is because they haven't been observed. These security programs will have to catch up with the new tech because Apple is most likely going to go full-stream with its new processors, releasing a lot more variants.

We really hope there are proper solutions in place because these malware programs are going to keep popping up and it'll be very hard to track them down because of lack of signatures. This is usually the case when we're dealing with a new kind of tech, but we're sure the security community will come through.

We'll keep an eye on the developments, so stay tuned for more info.

Source: Patrick Wardle Findings

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