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1,000% increase in dark web threat actors targeting macOS (www.accenture.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The standard file manager doesn't even have an SFTP client. What are they smoking?