New 'Silver Sparrow' Malware Infected Nearly 30,000 Apple Macs

Days after the first malware targeting Apple M1 chips were discovered in the wild, researchers have disclosed yet another previously undetected piece of malicious software that has already infected 29,139 Macs running Intel x86_64 and the iPhone maker's M1 processors. However, the ultimate goal of the operation remains something of a conundrum, what with the lack of a next-stage or final payload