That makes the Mac an increasingly desirable target.” Macs are becoming increasingly more popular, so more of them are often in the hands of people, like CEOs of corporations and others. “And people are starting to realize that’s not actually true. “We’ve always been told that Macs don’t get viruses,” Thomas Reed, director of Mac and mobile for Malwarebytes, told me. Its latest report claims that more new malware families have surfaced in 2017 than in any other previous year in Mac history - which would be alarming, because a threat analysis report by McAfee showed that malware for the Mac already grew by 744% in 2016. Anyone who downloaded and launched the infected version would have a remote access tool quietly installed on their Mac, giving attackers remote control of their computer.Īccording to information-security firm Malwarebytes, this is just one of a growing number of malware targeting the Mac. One of the two download servers for the open-source program was hacked, and it served a malware-infected version of the app for about three days. Malwarebytes finds that more malware for Macs appeared this year than ever beforeĮarlier in May, the popular macOS video transcoding app HandBrake was compromised.
