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FWIW:I would also counsel here to stop throwing money away. You don't seem to have a real problem, just a perceived snappy responsiveness. It's not the network (multiple modems, multiple IP addresses). Not malware, viruses or infections (multiple scans with multiple products). Not a system bug, or there would be more folks than just you bringing it up. Two consultants didn't find anything. Basically, bottom line, sometimes when you find nothing it is because there is nothing to find.
According to Ars Technica, malware previously undetected has been found on nearly 30,000 Macs across the globe. Known as “Silver Sparrow,” this malware is particularly mysterious.
Macs infected with malware are programmed to check a control server every hour to see if there are any new commands or binaries to execute. So far, researchers have not seen any payload delivered by this malware, which means they don’t really know this software’s goal. That means there’s a chance that its commands could be unleashed once some unknown condition is met.
Even more curious is the fact that the malware is programmed to self-destruct. This type of feature is usually reserved for ‘high-stealth operations.’
What makes this malware even more surprising is that it was programmed to run on Apple’s new M1 chips. That’s impressive when you consider that these chips just hit the market in late 2020.
Silver Sparrow has been found in over 153 countries, with higher concentrations in the US, Canada, France, UK, and Germany.
Security researchers at Red Canary dubbed Silver Sparrow a “reasonably serious threat.”
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