Mac
Malware Threats Increase
Security firm F-Secure has
spotted 58 separate threats targeting OS X in the past nine months.
F-Secure has published a report looking at Mac threats between April and December 2011 which showed
June and October as being particularly busy months for
Mac malware while only one threat was
spotted in August.
Of the 58 threats spotted
in total, 15 were classified as “backdoor” threats, seven were Trojans, 29 were
Trojan downloaders and the other seven were classified simply as “rogue.”
“Mac malware has not scaled
continuously due to market share, but rather, is more the result of opportunist
‘bubble economies’ that have produced new threats in fits and starts. We expect
more of the same for 2012,” F-Secure said.
The company notes that
while the number of threats is minute when compared to the number seen
targeting the Windows platform, it is a significant increase on previous years.
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