{"id":981,"date":"2021-02-22T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T11:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smileonfridays.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2021-09-17T11:49:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T10:49:52","slug":"smile-on-fridays-secured-coverage-in-cnn-for-red-canary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smileonfridays.com\/smile-on-fridays-secured-coverage-in-cnn-for-red-canary\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile On Fridays secured coverage in CNN for Red Canary!"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n

Smile On Fridays secured coverage in CNN for Red Canary<\/h3>\n
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Nearly 30,000 Macs worldwide have been infected with mysterious malware, according to researchers at security firm\u00a0Red Canary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The issue was somewhat confounding to Red Canary researchers, who said it’s not clear what the malware’s goal is. In a blog post, the firm said it\u00a0<\/strong>did not observe the malware delivering “malicious payloads” \u2014 essentially, harmful actions against a device.<\/div>\n
The malware, which the company calls Silver Sparrow, does not “exhibit the behaviors that we’ve come to expect from the usual adware that so often targets macOS systems,” Tony Lambert, an intelligence analyst at Red Canary wrote.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][nectar_btn size=”medium” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” text=”Read Article Here” url=”https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/21\/tech\/mac-mysterious-malware\/index.html”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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