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

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    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?

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      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.

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      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.

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        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