First Apple Silicon M1 malware discovered in the wild

[leadeater]

11 hours ago, lafrente said:

A- Cure cancer with a single pill

B- Treat it for 25 years

 

It WILL always choose the option B. That's not a conspiracy theory, that's a fact.

You do know medical research is done outside the US too, world leading research, that is tax payer funded through public academic institutions. Option B means nothing to entities and academics who receive funding contingent on the basis of academic research output devoid of any potential commercial opportunities thereafter. 

 

Sure some for profit pharmaceutical company might pick up that research and develop it in to a market ready product but that's not going to prevent a cure for cancer being found.

 

The conspiracy theory you're leaning on is the one that somehow pharmaceutical companies are able to control and stifle all global research to prevent cures of diseases and illnesses being found while also ignoring that they are perfectly able to make profit off other things anyway, we aren't going to run out of potential products they can develop and sell.

 

And the longer a person is alive for the more money you can extract from them, a person dying of cancer is the end of a current or potential revenue stream.

[leadeater]

56 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

I can't find GoSearch22.app on this website (Is Apple silicon Ready?).

Anyone wanna submit it?

 

Nope, I've never been to the site and I'd like it to stay that way

[Jet_ski]

This article is a nothing burger. You have to download this malware app and install it for it do anything. Unless you visit shady websites and download files from untrusted sources, it won’t impact you.

[captain_to_fire]

11 hours ago, lafrente said:

You're talking about capitalism yet you got no clue how it works. If a pharmacy company has an option to 

 

A- Cure cancer with a single pill

B- Treat it for 25 years

 

It WILL always choose the option B. That's not a conspiracy theory, that's a fact.

I don’t know how cancer, computer malware and big pharma conspiracy made its way here. Here’s the thing, if I happen to discover a cure for cancer, I’d take option A and you know why? Cancer is an evolving disease, just because I happen to cure stage 4 melanoma doesn’t mean there wouldn’t be other cancers out there because the best way to NOT get cancer is to not be born! 

Spoiler

-Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease 9th edition, p. 275

Sure, quality of life will improve with proper lifestyle, but diseases too evolve and change. 
 

12 hours ago, lafrente said:

You're definitely making a lot of noise for someone who says nothing. Ding ding, boy. Antivirus companies made $40bil last year. That's about Russia's annual military budget. 

I don’t know where you’ve gotten those figures, but I’m pretty sure Symantec (now owned by Broadcom), Kaspersky Lab, et.al aren’t worth $40 billion. 

12 hours ago, lafrente said:

As long as there are paid antivirus softwares, there will be viruses. Unfortunately it's not the other way round.

Do you really think that if people start using free AV, it’ll mean computer malware will disappear in the face of the world? I didn’t know that the tech urban legend from early 2000s that AV vendors themselves make malware hasn’t died yet.

[Sauron]

13 hours ago, wall03 said:

90 days is a while though

I took 90 days to be found  

 

obviously it's part of the course though

1 hour ago, LAwLz said:

It feels like a belief held by mainly Americans who don't understand that in most countries, having sick people directly relates in loss of money. For example most countries in the EU has free healthcare, so those countries are quadruple incentivized to find a cure.

It's a net loss of money in the US as well, more so than in many countries with government funded health care, just not for the pharma companies  though of course the idea that they purposefully make us sick is absurd considering humans tend to get sick on their own anyway

[Video Beagle]

2 hours ago, LAwLz said:

I never get the whole "big pharma wants to keep us sick" conspiracy theory.

Conspiracy theories...like many "beliefs"...are a way to explain a scary universe that's beyond your control. It's easier to believe in shadowy forces acting against you then the simple uncarring world.  "Why can't we cure cancer?" Not because it's beyond the realm of current science despite all the money and resources put to it...it's some plot!

[RejZoR]

42 minutes ago, Video Beagle said:

Conspiracy theories...like many "beliefs"...are a way to explain a scary universe that's beyond your control. It's easier to believe in shadowy forces acting against you then the simple uncarring world.  "Why can't we cure cancer?" Not because it's beyond the realm of current science despite all the money and resources put to it...it's some plot!

Just like malware. If we can't just eradicate it entirely with 100% precision, it must be some security company conspiracy to keep us all in fear and to sell antivirus software to people. Somehow.

[Spindel]

This thread has taken a strange turn

 

[RejZoR]

Just now, Spindel said:

This thread has taken a strange turn

 

Mostly because people have no clue what they are talking about and then it all turns into a clusterfuck. Partially also existence of this thread itself. Malware is just software like any program, of course it'll be coded for ARM Macs from now on. Real news would be they found some hardware flaw or vulnerability in it already. That would be entirely different thing.

[Dabombinable]

8 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Mostly because people have no clue what they are talking about and then it all turns into a clusterfuck. Partially also existence of this thread itself. Malware is just software like any program, of course it'll be coded for ARM Macs from now on. Real news would be they found some hardware flaw or vulnerability in it already. That would be entirely different thing.

A fair few people are acting as if the M1 is a completely new type of CPU, maybe even the next coming of christ...when it is really just ARM done extremely well. Those are the people most surprised at malware being a thing on M1 Macbooks.

[Doobeedoo]

18 hours ago, ProjectBox153 said:

In all honesty, they don't in a lot of cases. 

Yeah, because nobody bothers coding for them, as they drop in the ocean compared to Windows machines out there.

[Fnige]

13 hours ago, Spindel said:

This thread has taken a strange turn

 

This isnt what you call conversations?

[williamcll]

I imagine more M1 ported android/apple viruses to appear soon.