McAfee Labs identified malware on macOS, an increase of 50% in the past quarter.

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McAfee Labs report Threats Report for the 1st quarter past. There is interesting information that the number of new malware found on macOS, an increase of up to 50% in the first quarter of the year 2017, there are a total of 250,000 times compared to the two years before the discovery in the year 2015 have found 50,000 times.

The report states that this type of malware found on macOS mostly adware






although the growth rate will be higher. However, if a number of times less than Windows, which is found 30 million in the past quarter. However, the issue of market share, operating system, it affects the numbers as well.

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