![]() ![]() The report also highlighted Windows and Android as fertile ground for malware and I’d assume this surprises few who are reading this. The takeaway here is that malware and adware is now being aimed in a much more direct way at Apple’s desktop products and users need to accept this fact and take action against it with software like Malwarebytes or something similar. Looking at the per-device threats, in 2018 there were 4.8 threats per Mac OS device, so the jump to 11 year-over-year isn’t great, but it also isn’t a 400% increase either. To keep some perspective, here, some of these numbers seem to be a tad inflated due to the fact that more users are installing Malwarebytes software on their devices, increasing the overall threat reports. This makes macOS a fertile ground for the influx of new threats, whereas it’s common knowledge that Windows PCs need security software. There is a rising tide of Mac threats hitting a population that still believes that ‘Macs don’t get viruses.’ I still frequently encounter people who firmly believe this, and who believe that using any kind of security software is not necessary, or even harmful. ![]() ![]() People need to understand that they’re not safe just because they’re using a Mac. Talking to Recode, Thomas Reed – Malwarebytes Director of Mac and Mobile – had this to say: And maybe that is the exact mentality that hackers are preying on. ![]()
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