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1,000% increase in dark web threat actors targeting macOS (www.accenture.com)
submitted 1 year ago by lichtmetzger@feddit.de to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Based on research across established dark web forums, threat actors are targeting macOS, with exploits trading for millions of dollars

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[–] combustible_lemon_engineer@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It may not even be that much of a real increase. The "1000%" increase chart in the article doesn't have any y-axis label, which is suspicious. Plus percent increases from a small absolute starting point are misleading.

Skimming article, it looks like increase is in dark web posts about MacOS zero days and CVEs rather than actual successful attacks.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

During covid, the right wing dipshit-o-sphere tried to scare Asian people into thinking black people were out to get them.

They'd link things like "San Francisco hate crimes against Asians up 500%!" and just counted on no one looking at the numbers, which in these cases were an increase of one per year to five (all committed by one crazy dude)

Anyways, the reactions to that number were my first real internalization of the concept that the majority of people are just too lazy to check sources, which is something I knew but couldn't quite believe until then.