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Second malware strain primed to attack Apple’s new M1 chip identified

SC Magazine

Along with the Pirrit Mac adware identified earlier this week, researchers from Red Canary identified Thursday a different malware strain (Jon Rawlinson/CC BY 2.0)). 14 noting that a Safari adware extension that was originally written to run on Intel x86 chips was revamped to run on the new M1 chips.

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Scammers, profiteers, and shady sites? It must be tax season

Malwarebytes

Many search hijackers in this family also use notifications, which qualifies them as adware. It’s not that I recognized the form displayed in the notifications, but I knew the notification would likely be aimed at US users of the extension I was investigating since I had set my VPN to New York.