Correct, the information here is that it took 3 months to develop a vulnerability since available for public purchase.
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First Malware Running Natively on M1 Chip Discovered
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Don’t know who was wearing rose-gold tinted glasses, but it was an eventuality.
meanwhile people already screaming for Apple to open it all up and let devs go wild
The best way to make something such as software secure is to open it up, such that a community can identify, report and fix the vulnerability. macOS is built on FreeBSD lite which is open source code and with the support of the open source community we have come along way. Compare this to Windows.
Apple clearly sees the value in it hence it has a bug bounty.
I was speaking in a general sense and not about any specific member.
Correct, however most if not everyone has come to terms that if using a device that depends on updated software such as a smartphone, tablet, computer, electric car (some hybrid and ICE cars too) will present some vulnerabilities if someone has taken a keen sense to exploits.
A browser extension (malware) has to be installed purposely by the end user.
That doesn't really constitute much of a threat
That doesn't really constitute much of a threat
You can still have nice things, Bob. Just wrap a very large condom over your Mac and you will be fine as long as it doesn't break. Malware won't be able to penetrate a good Mac condom.
You forgot to mention, also add an external drive to prevent SSD wear
Dunno, I thought Chrome was the first malware for eating all the CPU cycles and memory.
I'm guessing that the M1 malware runs much faster than it does on Intel processors...
Good to see that even criminal scumbags are quick to support the bright future of Apple computing.
They're not collecting bounties for this. Maybe for something that actually involves discovering new vulnerabilities.
Well, you know something is well-adopted when there's even malware made for it!
It's not buggy. They just made malware for it like you can for any machine that runs programs.
Most likely for community bragging rights. Sometimes these types of exploits either created or found leads to employment opportunities. It’s not all for nothing.
This can only load when the user allows it.
It’s the dumb user’s fault, for clicking without reading first.
There are a lot of dumb users who click on prompts without reading them first. I don’t have an antivirus actively running on my Mac, and it doesn’t get infected.
Exactly. All platforms have malware and installing random things off the web is always the primary attack vector.
Some BS article. This is adware, not malware, not a virus. This is a deliberately installed extension that runs within Apple's sandbox yet its primary purpose it serving more advertisements on websites.
Headline should read, 'Safari extensions recompiled for M1 macs!"
Headline should read, 'Safari extensions recompiled for M1 macs!"
What are you talking about? The article correctly addresses what this is... generally and specifically. Generally speaking, it is malware so the headline reads correctly. Specifically, it's adware (a type of malware) and that's exactly what the article calls it. The word "virus" was never mentioned in the article.