NUMBER OF WINDOWS VS MAC USERS KEYGEN
"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." Tim Erlin, vice-president of product management and strategy at Tripwire, isn't convinced that, as a standalone statistic, it matters whether Mac or Windows malware is the more prevalent. Is there any place for platform wars in your cybersecurity strategy? So, what does the infosecurity industry make of this analysis and the broader concept of cybersecurity platform wars? I thought I'd ask and find out. The Malwarebytes researchers, however, concluded that what the 2019 threat landscape tells us as we move further into 2020, is that "it’s time to take a good hard look at Mac security and finally get serious." A rise in pre-installed malware, adware, and multi-vector attacks signals that threat actors are becoming more creative and increasingly persistent with their campaigns," Marcin Kleczynski, CEO of Malwarebytes, said, "it is imperative that, as an industry, we continue to raise the bar in defending against these sophisticated attacks." Mac threats, the report reveals, increased exponentially in comparison to Windows ones. One of the more interesting trends to be identified concerns the platform-specific nature of cybersecurity threats. The Malwarebytes research uses data from product telemetry, honeypots, and assorted threat intelligence metrics to analyze the threats to both consumers and businesses across 2019. A newly published report into the state of malware, however, threatens to expose a new dimension to the old debate: cybersecurity threat wars. Or, more precisely, Macs against Windows machines. There have been many such battles of the brand since, but none has had the longevity of Apple Vs. I was an Amiga person and went on to write about the platform for many publications in the next decade. My first experience of technology platform wars was back in 1985 when the protagonists were Amiga and Atari. Cybersecurity platform war as Apple Mac threats outpace Microsoft Windows ones for first time.
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