According to the report of the company McAfee, for the I quarter. 2017 g. The vulnerability of Apple Mac computers grew by 53%. In total, during the quarter, 700 thousand. Of MacOS infections. However, the system can still be considered safe - in the case of Windows, the number of incidents has reached 700 million.

Mac under threat.

The number of threats for Apple Mac computers is growing - for the I quarter. 2017 g. They became more by 53%, according to analysts at McAfee. Total for the quarter McAfee registered 700 thousand. Of cases of infection of Mac, and this indicator continues to grow. At the same time, the dynamics do not look as daunting as in 2016. , When during the year the number of recorded incidents grew by 744%.

Simultaneously in the 1st quarter. 2017 g. There was a decline in the appearance of new versions of malicious software for Mac. The bulk of viruses at the moment consists of adware, attached to applications that the user downloads. The growing popularity of this method and caused an increase in the number of incidents. Since the App Store is also available for desktops, McAfee recommends that you download applications only from trusted sources. The company notes that adware, while annoying the user, does not harm its files.

No matter how explosive the growth in the number of threats for MacOS was, the situation with Windows is worse. By the end of the quarter McAfee registered about 700 million cases of infection of various versions of Windows, that is, 1000 times more than on MacOS. This difference is due to both the lower prevalence and greater resistance of MacOS to viruses in comparison with Windows.

Hacker trends.

According to the McAfee report, in Q1. 2017 g. The most popular hacking mechanism was the attack on the "sandbox" - this is how 23.3% of malicious software works. Another 21.2% of viruses prefer to attack the remedies. In 21.1% of cases, malicious code is injected. The purpose of 16.1% of viruses is debugging mechanisms, another 18.3% are attacked by monitoring tools.

As for network attacks, the places were distributed as follows. 24% of incidents are the responsibility of "worms", 20% of cases are DDoS attacks, 23% of attacks are accounted for directly by browsers, 8% of cases are physically affected, 7% are compromised by SSL, and 6% of network attacks are used Malware.

According to the results of the quarter, for 83% of the cases of connection to the monitoring servers, the Mirai program answers, in 8% of cases - the Wapomi program.

McAfee also figured out where the DDoS attacks from botnets come from. The homeland of 39% of botnets by the end of the quarter was the United States, another 10% of such networks operated in Germany, 5% - in China, South Korea and the Netherlands. 4% of botnets were from Russia, 3% from Japan and the United Kingdom.