Dark Reading reported that: As Apple shifts from Intel chips to the self-developed Apple Silicon hardware platform, the probability of new malware attacks targeting M1 macOS is also increasing as the popularity of related devices by consumers increases.
It is reported that hackers have been eyeing the latest generation of Apple macOS devices, and security experts and anti-malware solution developers are also actively exploring how to detect and eliminate these emerging versions of malware.
Softpedia pointed out that Apple has used the new M1 architecture in the Mac and iPad Pro product lines, which brings faster and more efficient performance than ever before. But even if Apple provides a fairly complete security guarantee for M1 macOS devices, malware creators are still reluctant to give up easily.
Even painstakingly transform the malware on Windows into a version suitable for running on macOS. Patrick Wardle, an Apple security expert, pointed out that they have noticed the fact that the number of malware targeting the M1 platform is increasing.
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As attackers change their thinking, we, as malware analysts and security researchers, also need to keep pace with the times. About half of all macOS malware in 2020 are migrated from Windows or Linux platforms. In addition to adware, some attack codes are developed by hacker groups with deep backgrounds.
In their research, they were surprised to find that when splitting the binary files of macOS malware through the security analysis system, they found that one of them was for the Intel Mac platform and the other was specifically for the M1 Mac platform.
To make matters worse, the malware detection rate for the M1 platform is 10% lower than that for the Intel platform. So Patrick Wardle realized that in addition to the traditional solution based on static detection, they had to use more flexible behavior detection technology.
But even so, the researchers still affirm that the M1 system is indeed very effective in hardware-level security enhancements.
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