Having crunched the numbers and analyzed the data, the report concludes that the volume of Mac threats increased by more than 400% year-on-year in 2019, outpacing Windows 'threats per endpoint' by a ratio of nearly two to one. The 2020 Malwarebytes ' State of Malware Report,' took a deep dive into the real-world threats that faced Android and iOS users, browser-based attacks and both Mac and Windows PCs. Mac threats, the report reveals, increased exponentially in comparison to Windows ones. One of the more interesting trends to be identified concerns the platform-specific nature of cybersecurity threats. The Malwarebytes research uses data from product telemetry, honeypots, and assorted threat intelligence metrics to analyze the threats to both consumers and businesses across 2019. A newly published report into the state of malware, however, threatens to expose a new dimension to the old debate: cybersecurity threat wars. Or, more precisely, Macs against Windows machines. There have been many such battles of the brand since, but none has had the longevity of Apple Vs. I was an Amiga person and went on to write about the platform for many publications in the next decade. My first experience of technology platform wars was back in 1985 when the protagonists were Amiga and Atari. Cybersecurity platform war as Apple Mac threats outpace Microsoft Windows ones for first time.
