They tend to stick around longer - if you create a PUP, it's hard for Apple to say, 'That's a bad app, you shouldn't use it.'' 'What we're seeing more of is adware and PUPs. There's not a huge volume of true malware - keyloggers, spyware, the really malicious stuff. 'What they're targeting Mac users with is different from what they're targeting on Windows. 'Malware writers are finding that Mac users are a good target,' Reed told us. Adware and PUPs are a much more significant problem that only began to be a real issue in 2013 and have been multiplying at an increasing rate since.'

In some cases, malware has been known to infect thousands of endpoints, in others only a handful, and for others it is not known how many endpoints were infected.'Īnd yet, the report says, malware 'is the least prevalent of all Mac threats. 'This 220 percent figure is only considering the appearance of new malware, not the number of affected endpoints. 'Our tracking of Mac malware has seen a more than 220 percent increase in malware so far in 2017 over 2016,' Malwarebytes told us in a statement.

'More new malware families have appeared this year than in any other previous year in Mac history, and the year is still far from over,' the report says, singling out the ProtonRAT Trojan of a couple of months ago as the worst new threat. Today’s Malwarebytes report seems to confirm those predictions. Two prominent Mac malware experts - Synack researcher Patrick Wardle and Cybereason researcher Amit Serper - said earlier this year that 2017 would likely be a banner year for Mac malware.

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