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With a 25.3 per cent share, PUAs represent a quarter of ‘executable’ threats to Macs.Įven with Apple keeping close tabs on the ecosystem, developers have flooded the market with ‘shady’ apps, some persuasive enough to get users to disable restrictions and run apps from any source.

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Highly aggressive PUAs can modify third-party apps, download additional (unsolicited) software, and alter system settings. Some PUAs hijack the user’s browser, changing the default search engine and installing plugins without consent. Walking the thin line between nuisance and threat, PUAs are commonly found as freeware, repackaged applications or utility apps (i.e., system cleaners) with hidden functionality like data tracking and coin mining. PUAs occupy the second spot, with more than a quarter of detections.

While some can be considered legacy malware, threat actors still use them, with some degree of success, as many users don’t configure proper security settings and/or deploy a dedicated security solution. Most Trojan families listed in the report are household names in the macOS threat landscape.

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Threat actors use every trick in the book to infect systems, including socially engineered communications (e.g., spam, phishing, social media) rigged advertisements (malvertising) and tainted file downloads via torrent or warez websites. Just like the years prior, Trojans remain the biggest single threat to Macs, accounting for more than half of the threats detected. While named differently, these hazards share one trait: they require victims to manually run the threat, meaning their authors try hard to make their malware look like legitimate applications. Threat actors put effort into making malware packages look and feel like legitimate applicationsĭata gathered annually by Bitdefender shows that Mac users are mainly targeted by three key threats: Trojans, Adware and Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs).Threats designed to infect Macs typically require victims to manually run an executable.8% of PUA detections on Macs are crypto miners and 1% are jailbreak utilities.With a 25.3% share, PUAs represent a quarter of ‘executable’ threats to Macs.Trojans designed to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities present a real danger to users who typically postpone installing the latest security patches from Apple.EvilQuest remains the single most common piece of malware targeting Macs at 52.7%.Trojans are the biggest single threat to Macs, accounting for more than half of threat detections followed by PUAs and Adware.

Mac users are targeted by three key threats: Trojans, Adware and Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs).On the contrary, although targeting is less frequent, findings show that cybercriminals will go to greater lengths to get Mac users to click malicious links to implant malware such as trojans and ransomware.

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The report aims to dispel the myth that Apple products such as macOS and iOS are free from cybercriminal targeting and campaigns. Bitdefender has revealed at Black Hat USA 2023 the macOS Threat Landscape Report, which looks at the top threats and trends targeting Apple’s macOS operating system over the duration of 12 months.

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