One in 10? That number is fairly hard to believe, but if it's even in the ballpark, I wonder why macOS' built-in malware protection isn't blocking this more effectively.
It comes a page pop up from safari. It's the user giving the permission. People clicking and giving permission to things that they think are legit.. I am not sure how Apple's malware protection can keep that in check. It's not an automatic process.. the user has to ok it.
I have seen this pop up on Ipad Safari as well. So it's obviously fake because IOS devices aren't using Flash..
The whole point of malware protection software is to block malware even when (especially when) the user can't or doesn't.
But as has been pointed out by others, this article's title is clickbait and NOT what Kaspersky said. One in ten users (running Kaspersky) has run across this malware, not necessarily become infected. That's a much more believable situation, and I'm a little surprised it's not higher. And in that case, Apple's malware protection may well already block it, for all we know, with or without Kaspersky. I would guess that it probably does.
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