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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A dangerous new malware campaign is targeting Mac users worldwide. Security researchers at CrowdStrike uncovered Shamos, a new variant of the Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS), developed by a cybercriminal ...

An estimated 100 million Apple users are at risk of falling victim to malware. Cybersecurity software company Check Point issued an urgent warning to the millions of Mac users around the world who may ...

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 ...

Hackers are misusing ChatGPT and AI tools like Grok to spread data-stealing malware on Mac devices. They manipulate search ...

A variant of the Banshee macOS infostealer was seen duping detection systems with new string encryption copied from Apple’s in-house algorithm. A Check Point research, which caught the variant after ...

A security company says it blocked a widespread malware campaign that hijacked fake Mac support pages to steal passwords, browser data, and cryptocurrency. Between June and August 2025, CrowdStrike's ...

The macOS infostealer "Banshee" has been spotted skating by antivirus programs using a string encryption algorithm it stole from Apple. Banshee has been spreading since July, primarily via Russian ...

Cybercriminals are ramping up their use of fake software updates to distribute malware, and Mac users are in the crosshairs with a new strain. Researchers have identified two new threat actors, TA2726 ...

Microsoft said it has detected a new variant of XCSSET, a powerful macOS malware family that has targeted developers and users since at least 2020. The variant, which Microsoft reported Monday, marked ...