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

  • roofuskit@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Apple used to brag about how Macs didn’t get viruses. I used to laugh because it wasn’t that they were that much more secur but because their market share was too small to be a profitable target.

    Now they’ve cultivated the perfect target user base. A large collection of tech ignorant or adverse people who have lots of money to burn.

    • 🦘min0nim🦘@aussie.zone
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      11 months ago

      Well, they were significantly more secure by default than Windows due to various design measures including the separation of user land. And old OS9 was friggin brilliant for a web facing machine back in the day.

      • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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        11 months ago

        OS9 ran absolutely everything with full privileges. It was not even remotely secure. It was basically Windows 95-level security.