Dark Web Threat Actors Targeting macOS | Accenture
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Accenture Cyber Threat Intelligence observes an almost 1,000% increase in threat actors from the dark web now targeting macOS. Read the blog.

Based on research across established dark web forums, threat actors are targeting macOS, with exploits trading for millions of dollars

  • roofuskit@kbin.social
    55·
    1 year ago

    Apple used to brag about how Macs didn’t get viruses. I used to laugh because it wasn’t that they were that much more secur but because their market share was too small to be a profitable target.

    Now they’ve cultivated the perfect target user base. A large collection of tech ignorant or adverse people who have lots of money to burn.

    • 🦘min0nim🦘English
      32·
      1 year ago

      Well, they were significantly more secure by default than Windows due to various design measures including the separation of user land. And old OS9 was friggin brilliant for a web facing machine back in the day.

      • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        OS9 ran absolutely everything with full privileges. It was not even remotely secure. It was basically Windows 95-level security.

    • abhibeckert@beehaw.org
      11·
      1 year ago

      When did Apple brag about that? All I can think of is a brief ad campaign where the “PC Guy” had a cold. That’s hardly a claim that Macs have perfect security.

      Apple has, in fact, gone on the record as saying they don’t think the Mac is secure enough, and that’s why iOS is locked down as tight as it is.