Security News > 2020 > February > Mac attacks on the rise

Cyberattacks on Mac endpoints nearly doubled over those on Windows for the first time, according to the 2020 State of Malware Report.

"We saw a significant rise in the overall prevalence of Mac threats in 2019, with an increase of over 400% from 2018,'' the report by Malwarebytes Labs stated."

To see if that increase reflected what was actually happening in the Mac threat landscape, Malwarebytes said, it examined threats per endpoint on both Macs and Windows PCs. "In 2019, we detected an average of 11 threats per Mac endpoint-nearly double the average of 5.8 threats per endpoint on Windows,'' the report said."

The sophistication of threat capabilities in 2019 increased, with many using exploits, credential stealing tools, and multi-stage attacks involving mass infections of a target, the report said.

The State of Malware report includes data sets collected from product telemetry, honey pots, intelligence, and other research conducted by Malwarebytes threat analysts and reporters from all of 2019.

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