According to , Trojans are the preferred means for cybercriminals to infiltrate Apple systems. As of 2019, trojans accounted for 59.87 percent of all malware attacks on macOS systems. Backdoors ranked second, with 34.66 percent of macOS malware samples involving this variant.
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