Because It Is Popular Among Business People, The Latest Apple Products Are Being Attacked By Malware

IPad products from Apple that use the M1 CPU are now being attacked by dangerous malware. (photo credit: Henry Ascroft/unsplash)

JAKARTA - New Apple products equipped with the M1 CPU are gaining popularity among both personal and business consumers. This fact makes him the target of new types of malware targeting them increasingly.

According to Dark Reading, cybercriminals have begun targeting the latest Apple devices and spreading the new generation of macOS malware. Professional security agencies and anti-malware solutions have started detecting and neutralizing this emerging version of malware.

The new Mac and iPad Pro now run on the new M1 architecture. This new technology is much faster and more efficient than the previous one. Mainly because it is able to help and secure computers from physical access protection and remote exploitation.

In response, malware authors redesigned Windows malware to run on the macOS operating system. The growing number of malware targeting the M1 platform has been noted by Apple security specialist Patrick Wardle.

"As attackers evolve and change, we as malware analysts and security researchers need to keep up," said Patrick Wardle.

About half of all macOS malware in 2020 was Windows or Linux malware migrating to macOS, such as adware and nation-state attack code.

Wardle's research found that when an anti-malware system splits macOS malware binaries, one for Intel-based Mac platforms and another for M1-based platforms, it detects malware targeting Intel platforms better than malware targeting M1 platforms, with detection rates for M1 malware. down 10%.

This led Patrick Wardle to conclude that the current macOS antivirus only works with Intel malware types, not M1 types. He believes that, in addition to finding illegal behavior, traditional detection techniques should use behavior-based technology in addition to embedded static detection. However, the researchers stated that the M1 system is very effective for strengthening security at the hardware level.