Dark Web Threat Actors Targeting macOS | Accenture
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Accenture Cyber Threat Intelligence observes an almost 1,000% increase in threat actors from the dark web now targeting macOS. Read the blog.

Based on research across established dark web forums, threat actors are targeting macOS, with exploits trading for millions of dollars

    • combustible_lemon_engineer@kbin.social
      39·
      1 year ago

      It may not even be that much of a real increase. The “1000%” increase chart in the article doesn’t have any y-axis label, which is suspicious. Plus percent increases from a small absolute starting point are misleading.

      Skimming article, it looks like increase is in dark web posts about MacOS zero days and CVEs rather than actual successful attacks.

    • The Doctor@beehaw.org
      32·
      1 year ago

      More and more, companies are giving their sysadmins and coders Macbooks rather than Wintel laptops. It’s been an upward trend in last eight or nine years. I’ve always thought it was to head 'em off at the pass so they won’t install un-remotely managed and un-monitored Linux distros on company equipment. At any rate, a lot of proprietary stuff winds up on corporate Macbooks, which means targets worth going after. As for availability of exploits for OSX, folks have been hoarding them for this kind of situation. These days, you wait for an optimum target environment before you unleash your 0-days.

      • Kazumara@feddit.de
        9·
        1 year ago

        I’ve always thought it was to head 'em off at the pass so they won’t install un-remotely managed and un-monitored Linux distros on company equipment.

        For me it’s not working. Every day of having to use macOS drives me closer to doing this. It’s such a fucking annoying system, even after 2.5 years :-D

          • Sirence@feddit.de
            5·
            1 year ago

            I remember why I hated my iPhone 3g so much. Mandatory iTunes, no multitasking, horrendous notification management, terrible skeumorph design everywhere, safari as mandatory browser which most websites were not compatible with… I could go on for a while.
            I hated my iPhone so much I sold it and thought I’d never buy another smartphone again because I assumed all of them were that shitty.
            Bought a gingerbread android a while later and it was just so much better in every regard.

            • The Doctor@beehaw.org
              1·
              1 year ago

              I’m stuck with an iPhone for work, too. I really don’t like it. Hell, the only thing I use it for is Okta OTP, I don’t even receive text messages on it. Handy to have a thing to act as a wireless hotspot once in a while, though.