Cybersecurity platform war as Apple Mac threats outpace Microsoft Windows ones for first time. The 2020 Malwarebytes "State of Malware Report," took a deep dive into the real-world threats that faced Android and iOS users, browser-based attacks and both Mac and Windows PCs. Having crunched the numbers and analyzed the data, the report concludes that the volume of Mac threats increased by more than 400% year-on-year in 2019, outpacing Windows "threats per endpoint" by a ratio of nearly two to one. "Cybereason is seeing a noticeable increase in malware strains and threat groups that are targeting Mac systems," says Israel Barak, CISO at Cybereason, "we are also seeing a steady increase in the level of sophistication in the tools being used to target Mac systems and in particular, the use of built-in operating system capabilities (living-off-the-land) to better evade detection." David Jemmett, CEO of Cerberus Sentinel, says that people are under a delusion about the Mac malware threat being less than Windows.
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