

Clearly the bad guys believe that there is money to be made from the (mainly) unprotected Mac community - so I doubt we've seen the last of this,” he said. “Although there has been Mac malware for many years, what's changed is that now regular users are frequently encountering it *and* falling for its tricks. “I think it's fair to say that Apple has never found itself fighting malware authors quite so intensely,” Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, told us.

With a new Mac Defender variant emerging hours after Apple’s Security Update 2011-003, we asked security software vendor Sophos “is it safe to say Cupertino is now engaging in its first ever cat and mouse game with cyber criminals?”
