Phishing Attack Pivots to Mac After Windows Browser Defenses Improve

[svish]

Disappointing to hear about this. With more Macs in the world, it is not surprising to see an increase in Phishing attacks. Always better to be careful.

 

[bousozoku]

Malwarebytes' browser extension handled those.

 

[bousozoku]

I never use Safari. Can't think of a single reason to use it really.

Apple doesn't seem to do more than the easier bits for security.

It's better than nothing, but the world has changed since better than nothing was enough.

 

[Spunk Bubble]

I never use Safari. Can't think of a single reason to use it really.

How about for what it does like browse websites.

 

[mattopotamus]

I love me some Apple, been a certified developer for over 30 years. But I can never use Safari — it doesn’t play well with a lot of web sites. Firefox is a lot more compatible, but occasionally, I’ll find a site where ONLY Chrome will work properly. (There are numerous health data-related sites for medical providers, where I see these incompatibilities.

Is it the fault of the website or Safari? I can’t be sure, but these kinds of problems have been going on for years.

I know I always see the message to use Chrome browser, etc. but feel like it has been a long time since I actually faced compatibility issues.

 

[Tagbert]

I've never understood how such pathetic phishing attempts could ever be even remotely successful. It's not 1998 anymore. Anyone who's ever used a computer at this point should be able to avoid the completely obviously scams. If you can't be bothered to learn the single most basic step of avoiding obvious scams online via something as simple as looking at the URL or email address, you get what you get. To call many of these "sophisticated" downplays the threat posed by attacks which actually are sophisticated.

I think one of the reasons that phishing and similar scams are not more polished is that they are targeting less sophisticated users who will still fall for those games. they know that the more experienced people will see through the scam anyway. It’s a dummy filter.

 

[Chuckeee]

There is a good chance if the page don’t work on Sarari, they are doing something shady.

Not all them. For example, the city owned utility company web site that I use to pay my utility bill is not compatible with Safari. I have noticed that several web sites the have been “optimized for Chrome” have Safari incompatibles, although they still work with Firefox, Edge and Brave.

 

[cjsuk]

Not all them. For example, the city owned utility company web site that I use to pay my utility bill is not compatible with Safari. I have noticed that several web sites the have been “optimized for Chrome” have Safari incompatibles, although they still work with Firefox, Edge and Brave.

This is usually because the morons writing the web site are cutting costs by not testing it on Macs because they don't have one and hoping that if they say that, Chrome on the Mac will work the same as Chrome on Windows. Hint: it doesn't - rendering is slightly different.

I work for a company that did that until we dropped their web stats that 40% of the customers were using macOS+iOS with Safari.

Strangely despite our customer base and the fact everything we do runs on Unix, the corporate overlords will only give us crappy windows laptops. The entire technology and analytics teams all have Macs at home.

 

[Chuckeee]

This is usually because the morons writing the web site are cutting costs by not testing it on Macs because they don't have one and hoping that if they say that, Chrome on the Mac will work the same as Chrome on Windows. Hint: it doesn't - rendering is slightly different.

I work for a company that did that until we dropped their web stats that 40% of the customers were using macOS+iOS with Safari.

Strangely despite our customer base and the fact everything we do runs on Unix, the corporate overlords will only give us crappy windows laptops. The entire technology and analytics teams all have Macs at home.

I agree the issue is lack of testing and sloppy coding. It is not malicious malware. But nevertheless there are some websites that don’t play well with Safari but will work with Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Brave while using a Mac.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

I love me some Apple, been a certified developer for over 30 years. But I can never use Safari — it doesn’t play well with a lot of web sites. Firefox is a lot more compatible, but occasionally, I’ll find a site where ONLY Chrome will work properly. (There are numerous health data-related sites for medical providers, where I see these incompatibilities.

Is it the fault of the website or Safari? I can’t be sure, but these kinds of problems have been going on for years.

It’s the fault of the developer. They used to try to code to web standards, now they code to Chrome. It’s not unlike the IE days with Chrome as the new IE.