The Mysterious Malware That Infected 30,000 Mac-Computers

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By: Elvis Pham, Journalist

Today, there has been a lot of cases being the mysterious malware that has been causing macs to not work. The malware is found called “Silver Sparrow”. The Silver Sparrow is a stealth operating malware that can completely remove itself from any Macbook Air. Silver Sparrow was found when the new Apple “M1″ was introduced in November for the Macbook AIR. Silver Sparrow has been detected in Macbook AIR around the UK, US, Canada, France, and Germany. The Silver Sparrow can infect other Macbook AIR by exploiting an installer in the MacOS called JavaScript API and then dodging and commands. The most mysterious part is when it says ” You did it!”, the malware remains unknown.


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