https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/apple-m1-native-malware-has-already-begun-to-appear/

Last year, Apple released Macbooks and Mac Minis powered by a new ARM CPU—the Apple M1. A few months later, malware authors are already targeting the new hardware directly. Wired interviewed Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle, who discovered an M1-native version of the long-running Mac-targeted Pirrit adware family.