Not too surprising, but McAffe has stated that the production of malware has reached a record level in the first six months of the year. The first half of the year saw 10 million new pieces of malicious code cataloged. Yikes. Serves as a reminder that we all need to be running good and up to date protection on our machines. McAffe also said that OSX users need to be concerned. With the growing popularity of Macs, they will become more appealing for attackers to focus their efforts on since there’s a larger userbase and more potential for profit. In April, they detected OSX/HellRTS, which can read the clipboard data on OSX, which could be a sign of things to come.

Source: Reuters