Phishing attacks on Apple Mac OS and iOS up by 9% in 2019: Kaspersky Report
Reports have shown that the volume of malicious attacks targeting Apple's MacOS and iOS have been fewer compared to Microsoft's Windows and Google's Android. According to Kaspersky's latest "Threats to Mac Users 2019" report, Mac computers, iOS-based mobile devices, and associated web services together faced 1.6 million phishing attacks in the first half of 2019. According to the Kaspersky report, the most frequently used phishing attack against Apple users try to imitate iCloud service interface and steal credentials to their Apple ID accounts. Scaring users with false warning messages and getting them to click on a few links to keep them safe is another popular phishing scheme that is being used against Apple users. With 30.9% affected users, Brazil had the highest number of phishing attack cases on macOS, while India with 22.1% and France with 22% affected users are the other two countries were phishing attacks are rampant.
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