cultofmac.com/news/mac-malware-tricks-users-bitdefender-report Mac malware increasingly works by tricking you, not hacking macOS
Bitdefender’s macOS threat report, drawing on over 1.5 billion security events from August 2025 to July 2026, says adware rose to 34.4% of blocked detections from 22.6%, while trojans remained the largest category at 45.2%. It also examines ClickFix fake CAPTCHAs that push users to paste Terminal commands, plus three notarized apps that Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 listed as carrying the FlutterShell backdoor.
