Mac users face increasing security threats, warns malware report.
Elastic Security Labs has released its spring 2023 Global Threat Report, which found that Trojans were the most common type of malware, making up over 75% of the total across Windows, Linux, and Mac. Cryptominers were the next most common category, with ransomware following closely behind. While 54% of all instances were found on Linux endpoints, only 6% of malware detections were found on Macs. Elastic found cryptominers to be the dominant malware on Mac, with XMRig accounting for almost 40% of instances. Elastic believes that the use of cryptominers against Macs could be on the rise.