ESET On Silver Sparrow Malware

[Tafsir 0]

Hi,

How can we quickly run a report to see if any of our Macs are infected or vulnerable by Silver Sparrow?

 

Thanks

[Marcos 3,591]

You'd see OSX/Agent.BL in the Detections panel. It's nothing new, detection was added in Sept 2020 to my best knowledge.

[sesk 0]

true. see the VirusTotal links (2X) in the BleepingComputer article. sorry I doubt you Marcos 😅

[Tafsir 0]

@MarcosI have gone through some documents and found that the new malware Silver Sparrow infecting Mac systems using the latest Apple M1 chip across the world. It is a macOS adware recompiled to infect systems running the Apple M1 chip. After reading more I came to know that this malware has two versions:

1. One variant of Silver Sparrow is designed for Intel x86_64 system architecture,
2. The other for both the previously mentioned architecture, as well as M1 ARM64.

I am already using ESET Endpoint security. Do I need to bother?

[Marcos 3,591]

ESET protects you from this malware. As I wrote, detection was added last year.

[Tafsir 0]

Thanks @Marcos