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Debunking 5 Major macOS Myths | Huntress

2024-06-13 · Read original ↗

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5 predictions
T1486Data Encrypted for Impact
96%
“can lead to other hardships like management and such. but do these features truly make it more secure than its windows counterpart? it ' s hard to say, as the nuances between macos and windows are vast. additionally, even though 57 % of users believe that malware doesn ' t exist …”
T1486Data Encrypted for Impact
90%
“virustotal, we ’ d be led to believe that ransomware is running rampant on macs, namely the evilquest / thiefquest ransomware, which was first uncovered in mid - 2020. however, if we dig deeper into the details of the surging numbers of supposed evilquest hashes seen in the wild,…”
T1548.006TCC Manipulation
46%
“in the early - to - late 2000s has given way to nation - state - sponsored malware, advanced infostealers, and spyware, like lightspy. and this malware has even started leveraging apple - specific tools and languages. since apple stopped pre - installing the python programming la…”
T1553.001Gatekeeper Bypass
43%
“- specific threats. where windows sees much more in the way of nation - state activity, macos observes items like pups, adware like search engine hijacking and clickbait, or shlayer, which leverages social engineering techniques to get the user to override gatekeeper to execute. …”
T1059.002AppleScript
35%
“in the early - to - late 2000s has given way to nation - state - sponsored malware, advanced infostealers, and spyware, like lightspy. and this malware has even started leveraging apple - specific tools and languages. since apple stopped pre - installing the python programming la…”

Summary

Let Huntress debunk the biggest Mac security myths. macOS is now a popular target for hackers, so learn the truth about its vulnerabilities and discover practical steps to enhance protection against cyber threats.