That sounds alarming, but closer inspection of Malwarebytes’ report shows the true picture is nowhere near as dramatic as those headline figures.īy far the two most prevalent threats on the Mac were pieces of malware called NewTab and PCVARK.
That was increase of more than 400% year-on-year. To be precise, Malwarebytes “detected an average of 11 threats per Mac endpoint in 2019 - nearly double the average of 5.8 threats per endpoint on Windows”. Does that still hold true today (if it were even true then)? Not according to security company Malwarebytes, who last week released a report which claimed Mac threats were growing faster than their Windows counterparts for the first time ever, “with nearly twice as many Mac threats detected per endpoint as Windows threats”.
