It’s high time we came to terms that Mac is indeed not safe now.
The report also suggests that home users have faced fewer threats and experienced fewer issues related to malware-based crypto mining and ransomware over the last quarter.
Mac malware rate has increased approx 62% from 2018 last quarter to 2019 first quarter, but what surprises us most is the increase in the rate of adware detection, with 201% growth, it has become a major participant in the imminent rise of threats on Mac operating system.
New types of attack methods were used to attack Mac, which majorly included the use of open source code to crypto mining malware, create backdoors, and Windows executables.
Then the bar was raised high when software such as EggShell, EvilOSX, EmPyre and a Python reverse shell was used for Metasploit.
If Mac is in serious trouble, imagine what will happen to Windows, with vulnerable file sharing protocol SMB, a perfectly used backdoor in past!