Silver Sparrow malware

 What is Silver Sparrow malware?

Silver Sparrow is a malicious program targeting Mac OS operating systems. There are two versions of this malware, the key difference being the targeted OS architecture. Silver Sparrow's activity has been observed in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, and Germany.

One variant of Silver Sparrow is designed for Intel x86_64 system architecture, the other for this and M1 ARM64. The latter is relatively new and, as such, is targeted somewhat less. As mentioned, this piece of malicious software is intended to infect systems with other malware, however, at the time of research, it has not been observed injecting compromised devices with any payloads. Therefore, the specific goals of cyber criminals behind Silver Sparrow are unknown. Likewise, it is unclear what potential damage the malware can cause. Additionally, some aspects of Silver Sparrow make its code easily modifiable, which makes it a versatile threat.read more