Recently, a disturbing discovery was made that has Mac users worried. a New search Apple has revealed that Apple’s M-series chips, found in Apple’s Macbooks, among other devices, contain a critical vulnerability. This vulnerability allows malicious parties to obtain users’ private keys, a scenario that could have serious consequences for cryptocurrency assets.

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Are Apple users’ cryptocurrencies at risk?

This vulnerability is deeply rooted in the microchip’s physical architecture and means that traditional patching methods are insufficient as direct changes to the chip’s architecture are, of course, not enforceable. The easy solution of updating the software does not seem possible at first glance.

Instead, the report suggests that defenses should be built into third-party encryption software, a solution that could, however, mean a significant degradation in the chips’ performance.

The threat manifests itself when a malicious application, with the default user system privileges, runs simultaneously with a cryptographic process on the same CPU cluster. According to the study, this attack, called “GoFetch,” could affect classical and future encryption algorithms.

This is quite a technical story, but in plain English it means that Apple’s chips actually contain a built-in vulnerability that malicious parties can exploit to steal private keys from victims. This first requires infection with a malicious app, which can be prevented by paying close attention online.