Mac threats outpace Windows for the first time
Mac threats increased by more than 400 percent year-over-year. Malwarebytes has released its annual “State of Malware” report revealing that for the first time ever, Mac threats are growing faster than their Windows counterparts.
Last year the cybersecurity firm detected an average of 11 threats per mac endpoint which is nearly double the average of 5.8 threats per endpoint on Windows. Additionally, overall mac threats increased by more than 400 percent year-over-year.
Malwarebytes also observed that cybercriminals are continuing to focus on business targets with a diversification of threat types and attack strategies in 2019. Throughout last year, global business threats rose by 13 percent to reach almost 9.6m detections.
Malwarebytes’ report also shed light on how trojan-turned-botnets Emotet and TrickBot both made a return last year to target organizations alongside new ransomware families including Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Phobos.
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