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1,000% increase in dark web threat actors targeting macOS (www.accenture.com)
submitted 11 months 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] 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What prompted this increase? Are they targeting a specific business market that predominantly uses MacOS? Or is it due to a recent increase in the availability of Mac exploits?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

During covid, the right wing dipshit-o-sphere tried to scare Asian people into thinking black people were out to get them.

They'd link things like "San Francisco hate crimes against Asians up 500%!" and just counted on no one looking at the numbers, which in these cases were an increase of one per year to five (all committed by one crazy dude)

Anyways, the reactions to that number were my first real internalization of the concept that the majority of people are just too lazy to check sources, which is something I knew but couldn't quite believe until then.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

IIRC, hate crimes against Asian Americans WAS a problem during covid, but it was driven pretty much entirely by said right wing dipshit-o-sphere because of Orange Julius's "china virus" sentiments. If they were trying to spin that as "Look how dangerous black people are!!", that is... actually completely unsurprising, almost to a diaappointing degree.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months 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] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My first smartphone was an iPhone back in 2011. I hated that damn thing so much and I can't even remember the specific reasons why, but I know that I did, and that was years before they went "full Apple" so I will probably never willingly touch another one of their products for the rest of my life.