Symantec published its 10th Internet Threat Report this week and quietly admitted a few days later that its predictions of increasing Mac-targeted spyware threats have not been realised.
Unsurprisingly, Symantec didn't make any mention of its inaccurate prediction in the latest report, so I thought I would ask about the omission.
It seems Mac spyware was not mentioned this time around because there were no new dangerous Mac-related threats in the first six months of the year.
"Symantec didn't include the top 10 attackers or the top 10 malicious codes for this report. What they chose to do instead was to focus on the top 10 new attacks with malicious code and there were no threats that registered in the top 10 category that pertained to Mac OS X," according to a Symantec spokesperson.
"[Symantec] just focused on new attacks and Mac OS X wasn't [the target] of any of them," the spokesperson said.
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