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Title: Adware remains the largest blot in the Mac threat landscape
Post by: HCK on October 10, 2022, 04:05:12 pm
Adware remains the largest blot in the Mac threat landscape

In early 2020, analysts at Malwarebytes reported a dramatic spike in the distribution of Mac threats. The security firm’s solutions had detected a fourfold year-over-year increase in malicious apps tailor-made to run on macOS machines. Back then, these unsetting statistics eclipsed the state of things in the Windows threat ecosystem, but there was an important nuance worth emphasizing.
Source: Adware remains the largest blot in the Mac threat landscape (https://macsecurity.net/view/459-adware-remains-the-largest-blot-in-the-mac-threat-landscape)