Apple M1 MacBooks receive new malware

[Amaroq_Starwind]

Time to get the Mac version of Malwarebytes ported over to ARM.

 

 

[exile360]

On 2/17/2021 at 1:36 PM, treed said:

It does find it now... and I don't want to say too much, but the detection won't be affected if the TargetingEdge folks remove the Intel code from the app. 🙂

Malwarebytes for Mac already detects it:

 

[Amaroq_Starwind]

I didn't say that it doesn't detect it, just that Malwarebytes itself would be more effective on M1 Macs if it didn't need to run through Rosetta~

[exile360]

2 hours ago, Amaroq_Starwind said:

I didn't say that it doesn't detect it, just that Malwarebytes itself would be more effective on M1 Macs if it didn't need to run through Rosetta~

I don't know if that's true.  It may gain a performance boost, but its efficacy with regards to its detection capabilities may be unaffected, at least if this current threat is anything to go by.