Elastic publishes malware report: 9 times more Linux than macOS

CTOnews.com, April 28, according to the 2023 malware report released by the security lab Elastic, 54% of the malware is for the Linux platform, 39% for the Windows platform, and 6% for the Mac platform.

Trojans are the most common type of malware, accounting for more than 75% of the total, according to the report. Next up are encryption miners and blackmail software.

In macOS systems, encryption miners are the main type of malware, of which XMRig accounts for nearly 40%.

Elastic believes that the use of encrypted miners for Mac may increase, and the CTOnews.com translation section of the report is as follows:

On the macOS platform, the proportion of encrypted miner attacks is getting higher and higher, and attackers can use MacOS and JavaScript to complete the corresponding tasks.

Because the Node package Manager (NPM) is the universal package manager for JavaScript, encryption miners can distribute to macOS endpoints in malicious packets.

Detailed reports can be accessed here.