According to the Red Canary blog post, Silver Sparrow has infected 29139 macOS devices as of 17 February. These range from the older generation Intel-based ones as well as the new M1 ones. As mentioned earlier, Silver Sparrow has yet to actually do anything yet. Instead, infected Macs check with a control server every hour to see if there are new commands for the malware to carry out. Even stranger is the fact that the malware is set to wipe all traces of its existence once it’s carried out its goal.
It’s perhaps a stroke of luck that a dormant, self-destructing malware was discovered before it did its thing. Apple has also already revoked the binaries for Silver Sparrow, meaning you shouldn’t be able to install it accidentally. (Source: Red Canary via Ars Technica)
