30K Macs are infected with ‘Silver Sparrow’ virus and no one knows why

Someone planted malware that has no point.

Macs and viruses aren’t all that common, but the one that was recently discovered by researchers is even less so. Security researcher Red Canary has published information about a new “activity cluster” that has infected 29,139 Macs across more than 150 countries but is missing one key ingredient: a reason to be.

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