Stefan Mileschin

460,000 malware samples uncovered

The myth that Macs were somehow more secure than other operating systems too another battering today in report the latest Threat Report by McAfee Labs.


Attacks on Macs has risen by 744 per cent in 2016 and more than 460,000 malware samples on Mac machines found. Although this is not a particularly high number you have to acknowledge that this is one security company and on a single machine.

It appears that after years of leaving Macs alone, Virus writers are suddenly taking an interest in knocking over Macs and the security by obscurity measures, along with faith-based defences are not working.

http://fudzilla.com/news/43323-mac-are-an-attack-magnet