Cybersecurity companies Symantec and FireEye They assure that the year 2016 will mark a before and after in terms of security in Apple systems, and it seems that there will be a significant increase in the methods and systems of attack on iOS and Mac OS devices, increasing considerably in the Mac OS X desktop system and doubling in the iOS mobile operating system. Symantec researcher Dick O'Brien accuses the popularity of Apple devices as the main reason for the growth of attacks, since they are becoming a much more juicy target as their sales increase. This year, during the first nine months, the Mac OS X drives affected by viruses are seven times more than in the whole of 2014.
However, this should not be a reason to worry Apple users too much, the attack number is still considerably lower than for Windows, Apple is still a company very concerned about the security and privacy of its users, and will continue to work to maintain this high level of security, all according to analyst O'Brien.
Regarding iOS, 96% of the total malware is directed only to Android devices, however, each time the attackers for iOS are proliferating more and this will continue throughout 2016, the popularity of iOS devices and their high number of sales have the blame. Both security companies are confident that Apple will continue to work next year to ensure the safety of its consumers, which has done considerably well so far, maintaining quite remarkable quality standards. Thus, the iOS user who has usually had little awareness of malware may have to take such threats more into account over time.