It's early, but 2025 is not shaping up to be a great year for Mac cybersecurity. In less than two months, we've seen numerous Mac malware threats targeting Apple laptops, which are generally ...

I spend most of my time in Windows, so I’m used to thinking about malware as a fact of life. You stay patched, you avoid sketchy downloads, and you accept that a ...

Recently, our own Harry McCracken revealed that even he’d been hit by the Mac malware known as Mac Defender (also known as Mac Protector). Here’s how to remove it from, or avoid getting it on, your ...

There are two new reports of Mac malware in the wild, with the first of them set to be blocked by an update expected this week. There’s no word yet on a fix for the second, but you’d have to be a ...

So-called macOS Stealers – malware that seeks to extract personal data like passwords and credit card numbers from your machine – is expected to be significantly more prevalent this year. A new annual ...

Update, Dec. 10, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 09, has been updated with a statement from Brave. Threat researchers have confirmed that a nasty new scam that targets macOS users is being ...

Apple devices are believed to be pretty secure, and that's what the company will tell you. You might have seen the tagline "Privacy. That’s Apple." in their ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. “The term FUD (Fully Undetectable) indicates that the malware ...

Dubbed "OSX/Leap.a" by McAfee, Sophos, and Symantec, the malware spreads using the Mac's built-in iChat instant messaging service, where it arrives as an IM file transfer. If the recipient opens the ...