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Avira has released an all-new Avira Security for Mac, including a free version as well as Prime for premium features. Avira Security for Mac has been redesigned from the ground up and is built using the latest Apple's Swift, SwiftUI, Combine frameworks alongside with the best in breed Avira protection technologies such as SAVAPI and APC. The app benefits from the latest technology stack to conserve system resources and not slow down the system, all while delivering best-in-class protection.
As the new kid on the block, the M1 chip-based Mac is already on the radar of malware writers, says Kaspersky. Discovered for the first time last year, the XCSSET malware mainly targets Mac developers by injecting a malicious payload into Xcode IDE projects on the victim's Mac.
Google is hurrying out a fix for a vulnerability in its Chrome browser that's under active attack - its third zero-day flaw so far this year. Another high-severity flaw is a heap-buffer overflow error that stems from Chrome tab groups.
An increasing number of Mac malware developers have started creating variants that are specifically designed to run on devices powered by Apple's M1 chip. Apple unveiled its M1 system-on-chip in November 2020 and the first malware created specifically for systems with the arm64 CPU architecture used by the M1 was apparently created in December.
Android 11 allows users to enable the Wi-Fi-Enhanced MAC randomization. Jack Wallen shows you how.
Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2021.1, the latest version of its popular open source penetration testing platform. A few of the terminals have also been tweaked to - as the developers noted - "Kalify" them.
A new macOS malware known as Silver Sparrow has silently infected almost 30,000 Mac devices with malware whose purpose is a mystery. In a collaboration between Red Canary, Malwarebytes, and VMware Carbon Black, researchers have found a new Mac malware that exhibits unusual properties, including a component explicitly compiled for the new Apple M1 chip.
A piece of malware that has infected almost 30,000 Mac computers has triggered questions over its intent and ultimate payload. SEE: Security Awareness and Training policy. Based on data from Malwarebytes, the malware dubbed Silver Sparrow by researchers at Red Canary, has so far landed on 29,139 macOS machines across 153 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, France and Germany.
Researchers at managed detection and response firm Red Canary have come across a mysterious piece of Mac malware that appears to have infected at least 30,000 devices around the world. Researchers have come across two variants of the malware, including one designed to run on devices powered by Apple's new M1 chip, which uses the arm64 CPU architecture.
Days after the first malware targeting Apple M1 chips was discovered in the wild, researchers have disclosed yet another previously undetected piece of malicious software that was found in about 30,000 Macs running Intel x86 64 and the iPhone maker's M1 processors. Calling the malware "Silver Sparrow," cybersecurity firm Red Canary said it identified two different versions of the malware - one compiled only for Intel x86 64 and uploaded to VirusTotal on August 31, 2020, and a second variant submitted to the database on January 22 that's compatible with both Intel x86 64 and M1 ARM64 architectures.